Our planet is sick - and we don’t just mean melting glaciers and rising ocean levels too distant from our daily realities. In Malaysia, we see the effect of climate changes and the inexorable destruction of Earth every day, and more startlingly, we are experiencing the health effects of our planet’s problems. Tan Sri Prof Dr Jemilah Mahmood, Executive Director of the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Sunway University, and Hazami Habib, CEO of Akademi Sains Malaysia, join us to draw the parallels between the planet’s, and the people’s, ill health.

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Produced by: Tee Shiao Eek

Presented by: Tee Shiao Eek

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Categories:  environment,  health policy

Tags:  the bigger picture,  health and living,  publichealth,  planetary health,  climate change,  climate crisis,  biodiversity,  deforestation,  pollution,  pandemic,