MALAYSIA

The New Straits Times-June 5

People who gather throughout the world to commemorate World Environment Day today will find not very much to celebrate.

In fact, they will have more reasons to mourn, and less to rejoice. The reason is simple: Our only habitable planet is dying a slow death by degradation. And at the hand of a 20th century invention, at that. Plastic. Some may think there is planet Mars to go to should Earth become inhabitable. Let’s not forget, man’s bad habits will soon follow.

Read more at: https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/leaders/2018/06/376704/invisible-threat-plastic-pollution

First published in: The New Straits Times