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Weaver: Special Edition dedicated to ASPAM

What do I Want to

Become in My life

By Thasarathakumar A/L Palanisamy, Malaysia

My dream career is to be an environmental minister and astrobiologist. I guess

I’m born to save the innocent planet Earth from humanity’s unsustainable and
destructive anthropogenic activities. Being an earthling and witnessing forests of a
size of football field is being cleared per second is very sobering and terrifying.
Perhaps, the deafening warnings made my climatologist, scientist, young activist
and nature is not loud and tangible enough to make changes.

If every Homo sapiens portrays polarised and fragmented planet. I’m
behaviour alike Greta Thunberg, then 16 years old now, and to date, I had
this planet will remain habitable for bagged a lot of gold medals on
quintillion years. Sadly, we are various innovation competitions
robbing every single resource, worldwide.
triggering a mass extinction, ignoring Apart from that, I’m bored
the truth, and killing our own life and seeing the pace of change is getting
descendants. Right now, the only more and more snail-paced. I’m going
blunder is politicians at all levels are to be a game-changer communally,
refusing to take action in accordance nationally and internationally. Thanks
with the United Nation signatories to the world’s most invincible
and accords that they agreed upon. community engagement powerhouse;
School-goers are joining and social media, which had spurred
organising climate strike planetwide to activism to the next-level.
demand actions from those wielding Intrinsically, humans are rational
political powers. Unfortunately, we thinkers but they tend to follow the
have only one decade left and the masses and, to make matters worse,
countdown is declining vigorously. producers are so avaricious and
Thus, my ambitions revolve individualistic. My to-do lists if I was
around inventing something valuable elected as an environmental minister
to reverse the trajectory from an will be undeniably very illuminating
environmental dystopian. It can be and pioneering. To illustrate,
photo-engineering, weather control mainstreaming renewable energy
technology, carbon capture, and sources, optimization of nature’s light,
genetic modification. I want to be a decarbonizing the economy, and
revolutionary scientist and political rewilding the nature.
figure up untilrevolutionizing this Needless to say, barriers and

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