Floods are a sign of our planet’s resources being overstretched. — Filepic
We are literally living beyond our means and borrowing Earth’s resources. To be exact, we are currently consuming the resources of 1.6 planets, says Nithi Nesadurai, president of the Environmental Protection Society Malaysia (EPSM).
“Our planet is in distress. Our bio-capacity, or the ecological limits by which we all must live, is at 1.7 global hectare per person. Yet our average consumption is 2.9 global hectare per person, which means we have overshot by 60%,” Nithi emphasises at a recent interview in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
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