The state Fire and Rescue Department monitoring the situation on a boat and helping rescue those stuck in the floods along Jalan P. Ramlee in Georgetown,Penang at 6.45am. Star Pic by: LIM BENG TATT/ The Star / 30 July 2018.
EARTH Overshoot Day (EOD), which falls on Aug 1 this year, will most likely pass unnoticed by nearly all Malaysians as well as the global community, even though its significance for us all, the planet and future generations is deeply alarming.
According to the www. overshootday.org website, EOD “marks the date when we (all of humanity) have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year” which is based on the Ecological Footprint (EF), a measurement of human impact on the environment. For the global economy to be sustainable, it cannot consume more than nature can produce and it cannot produce more waste than nature can assimilate.
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