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2020 upended life as we know it.
The coronavirus killed almost 2 million people and counting, while roughly 100 million people fell into extreme poverty. The world entered its worst recession since the second world war. Deep-rooted racial and economic injustices were exposed, while the impacts of the pandemic itself fell disproportionately on communities of color. And these crises played out against the ever-present threat of climate change, including record-breaking fires, locust invasions, storms and other extreme weather events.
2020 upended life as we know it. The coronavirus killed almost 2 million people and counting, while roughly 100 million people fell into extreme poverty. The world entered its worst recession since the second world war. Deep-rooted racial and economic injustices were exposed, while the impacts of the pandemic itself fell disproportionately on communities of color. And these crises played […]
Published on: Sunday, January 17, 2021
By: Kan Yaw Chong
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A goat standing amid terrific plastic pollution waste on Gaya Island.
THE game is over for the planet, unless a second industrial revolution happens which can mimic the living system where one species’ waste is another species’ food.
Those are words from Europe – birthplace of the first Industrial Revolution.
They see doom, if the flow of pernicious industrial wastes continue to leak out the economic system big time into the living systems.
Just google the subject, there is no lack of insightful European scientists, professors, industrialists and entrepreneurs who are howling for good riddance to the ruinous waste-bound linear economy and replace it with a waste-free circular economy.