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Impact of climate change on food security in Malaysia: economic and policy adjustments for rice industry

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Research articles Negin VaghefiFaculty of Environmental Studies, Department of Environmental Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia Correspondence: negin.vaghefi@gmail.com ,Mad Nasir Shamsudin,Alias Radam &Khalid Abdul Rahim Pages 19-35 | Received 13 Mar 2015, Accepted 21 Oct 2015, Published online: 03 Dec 2015 Image from ASEAN Post: Deforestation, pollution and resource degradation are increasing ASEAN’s vulnerability to natural and human-induced disasters, derived from climate changes. In view of this matter, ASEAN needs to find solutions to adapt to climate change in building a resilient ASEAN; Climate change dilemma driven by urbanisation;by Rebecca Shamasundari ; 26 August 2017 Rice paddies production in Malaysia, as in other parts of the world, is extremely vulnerable to weather changes and extreme conditions such as drought and flooding. Such situations forced Malaysia to maintain a protectionist regime with respect to its rice industry to be

Are Humans Necessary?

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Why Humans? Living things consume - consume air, water, food. The order of nature is whatever life consumes it gives back to nature to be used back to sustain the large diversity of life forms on the planet from the basic virus to the sperm whale. There is one life form which does not fit in. It only takes, consumes and what it gives back is garbage which cannot sustain any life, therefore useless. Every living thing on this planet has a role and a purpose. Take one species out, there will be chaos and nature adjusts to the absence of the species and life goes on. All living things except for one species adjust according to the natural order of things. This one species has tried and tried to adjust the natural order of things to fit its purpose. This one feeble species with a large brain thinks it was born to extract and manipulate the planet to protect its interests. It believes it has the power to protect and extract at the same time. It believes its purpose on