Everywhere you look, you see impending doom. A disaster just waiting to happen—or it’s already happening. Plastic by the roadside, the beach, the oceans. Empty boba tea plastic cups in the trash. Waste is not segregated properly. Perpetual meat supply in unhealthy fast food restaurants. Cars everywhere. Fast...
Perhaps you joined a climate strike or even the recent Conference of Parties by the UNFCCC. You felt all the medley of emotions and now you feel dead inside. Burnt out. Numb. Is there any hope for a liveable future at all? Maybe. Maybe not. But you know that deep,...
I didn’t grow up admiring Jane Goodall, or any other environmentalists. I was pretty much ignorant about environmental issues mostly because the surrounding environment I grew up in did not talk much about them. So how did I start to care about the environment? Long story short, I was...
On Sunday, 21 April 2019, I attended a climate rally held by a youth pressure group Klima Action Malaysia (KAMY). Ever since Greta Thunberg skipped school to demand climate policy outside the Swedish Parliament last year, more and more youth around the world are holding strikes for the climate. On...
The youth have been blaming politicians for not doing enough with regard to climate change. Politicians have been blaming the youth for not working slaving their asses off into (dirty) politics. Blaming won’t get us anywhere but it has given us an insight into the problem. And the problem...
In September 2020, I completed the Climate Reality Leadership training. This program was led by Al Gore, the former Vice President of the United States and guided by the Climate Reality Mentors. Background The Climate Reality Project aims to “catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent...
