“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs but not every man’s greed”

- Mahatma Gandhi

COMMENT | Climate scientists and activists all over the world are desperate. No one is taking them or science seriously.

The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report should be keeping all of us up at night. Yet, despite the dire warnings of the potential catastrophe that lies ahead for our planet, our leaders have remained mute.

Do we think this crisis has nothing to do with us? Malaysia cannot live in a bubble as if the climate crisis is too remote.

Maybe people think those melting glaciers are too far away from us to worry about! The sooner we realise that we are affected by melting glaciers as much as melting glaciers are affected by what we do, the better.

A rise in temperature has directly resulted in the warming of the sea, which has resulted in melting glaciers and has caused extreme weather conditions the world over.

The work ahead is...