Leaders should stop pushing the world towards precipice

The Amazon wildfires are particularly alarming as scientists have said that trees are the planet’s first line of defense against global warming. [Reuters]

Two things have the potential to end life on earth as we know it; nuclear bombs and climate change. Unfortunately, world leaders, who should be at the forefront averting such catastrophes, are busy stocking embers that could eventually burn and wipe out the world.

In Brazil, the Amazon rainforest-aptly called the lungs of the world as it produces an estimated 20 per cent of the world’s oxygen-is on fire, deliberately set ablaze by farmers out to create more room for crops.