A travel note on nature: Climate Change
A funny planned trip for refresh to Baglung not remained within the frame but gave a learn to know the impact of climate change on the rural people of Himalaya foothill in Nepal. A n old man was sitting with his companions, beneath a tree in a midsummer day of 2018 in Baglung Bazar, a rural-based town and a district headquarter of Baglung of Nepal. He was not a shopkeeper or business but a middle-classed farmer and a retired civil servant of district administrative office. He was saying with upset loading mood that his generation will not be able to handover the quiet beauty of nature to the coming generation. His indication was toward a gloomy future. His colleagues were not serious to him because they did not understand the seriousness of the subject. Perhaps he was comparing the climate between of now and then. It was too late to planting paddy in fields due to the shortage of water. Irrigation Canals were empty of water. Streams were not ...