During an unprecedented era of Covid-19, this year, the world celebrates International Youth Day. The theme of this year’s birthday party is “Youth Commitment to Global Action”, an appropriate theme that highlights the desire of other young people, representing 16% of the world’s population, to participate in life and political, economic and social processes in local/community, national and foreign titles and their ability to act and succeed on global challenges, adding up to climate replacement and the Covid-19 epidemic. While other young people around the world seek to meet these pressing challenges, the skills of Bangladeshi’s young people are largely ignored and malnourished, making it difficult for their clients to take concerted action.
It is transparent that climate replacement is disrupting climate situations in all countries on each and every continent, resulting in excessive weather events, adding flash floods, cyclones, hurricanes, storms, emerging sea levels, worsening water scarcity and water supply pollutants. These effects of climate change are affecting the socio-economic situation of women, young people and other young people around the world. Low- and middle-income countries are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. For example, in the Global Climate Risk Index 2020, Bangladesh, Dominica, Nepal, the Philippines, Pakistan and Vietnam were known as the countries most affected by climate change. Such a global challenge makes it difficult to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This requires the participation of other young people in global action to combat climate replacement and its effects on the socio-economic lives of others around the world.
In the past, other young people have tried to fight climate replacement by actively engaging in climate activism, adding prosecute fossil fuel corporations in the United States. Similar lawsuits have been filed in Colombia and Pakistan to combat climate replacement and its devastating effects. However, Bangladesh has not noticed such climate activism to combat climate replacement and its effects, or in the threatened parts of Sundarbans, a UNESCO World Heritage site and the world’s largest mangrove forest, where there is a coal-fired power plant. under construction. These so-called progressions are damaging the livelihoods of local communities and contributing to higher carbon emissions and greenhouse fuels, fueling global warming and climate substitution. This underscores the desire for other young people to participate in political processes and weather activism, possibly allowing them to protest against such policies of progression. It is also important to mobilize other young people at the local/community point so that they can contribute to the preservation of the environment and lessen the effects of climate replacement on the social and economic life of local communities.
In addition, youth participation in environmental and social movements can inspire the government to adopt environmentally friendly policies. These policies can motivate domestic and foreign organizations to provide money to adopt youth-led environmental projects, combating climate replacement and reducing their negative impacts.
Globally, the coronavirus pandemic has affected every single facet of life for others from all walks of life. While high-income countries appear to be able to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its impacts, low- and middle-income countries have been most affected by the disease due to multiple factors, the addition of limited resources, testing and treatment, insufficient political commitment, etc. Array For example, Bangladesh, a low-middle-income country, has been heavily affected by the coronavirus pandemic and the country is at the fourth and final level of Covid-19 transmission, according to the World Health Organization, meaning that the disease has become local to the population as the number of cases and deaths has begun to increase rapidly. However, the country has pursued overdue and insufficient containment measures to combat Covid-19. In this situation, the role of young people in the fight against the disease has become more critical than ever.
Other young people have been reported to have played a key role in reducing the spread of Covid-19 worldwide. For example, Scouts raise awareness of the transmission and prevention of Covid-19 around the world. In South Africa, other young people have used music and dance to disseminate accurate data on Covid-19 and remove rumours and false data about the disease. In the UK, young volunteers have helped patients with Covid-19 by providing food delivery services so that patients do not want access to public places and communities, thus restricting the spread of coronavirus and facilitating the social lives of Covid-19 patients.
In Bangladesh, organized through non-public connections and social media programs such as Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp, young volunteers collected donations from other wealthy people in the country and Bangladeshi immigrants living in other countries of the world. Young volunteers then distributed the essentials (such as soaps, rice, lentils and potatoes) loose locally and nationally. In some cases, other young people have spent their own cash offering daily food to others and preventing them from visiting public places, thus facilitating their lives in general and helping to control the spread of the disease across the country. However, these youth-led voluntary projects are not being carried out constantly in all regions of the country due to their unequal participation in the political process, inadequate economic aid and limited capacity. Therefore, the government deserves to adopt projects for the participation of young people in social, economic and political processes so that they can respond to the Covid-19 epidemic through volunteering activities and fitness promotion.
Together, many countries, in addition to Bangladesh, have already highlighted the adverse effects of the coronavirus pandemic and climate replacement. The active and vigorous participation of other young people in concerted action can facilitate combat against these demanding global situations and the achievement of the SDGs. With a sufficiently good participation in social, economic and political processes, other young people can play a more critical role in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic and climate replacement than in the world. As such, it is important to provide them with the right resources (adding monetary support, political empowerment, knowledge, skills, schooling and technology) and ensuring their meaningful participation and commitment to action in local/community, national and foreign degrees. for the demanding situations posed by the coronavirus pandemic and climate change. This is the commitment of all countries to other young people.
Dr. Md Nazmul Huda is a researcher and lecturer at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
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