Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Malaysia will not be a successful and developed nation if it fails to balance physical development with the preservation of the environment.
The Prime Minister said preserving nature and the environment for today's generation as well as for future generations was both a personal and collective responsibility.
“We have seen the effects of irregular development that only emphasise on the profit factor alone.
“We need to realise that our efforts to become a developed nation will not be achieved or recognised if what we can show is only skyscrapers but our rivers are polluted, only barren land is left out of our wilderness and the air we breathe is badly polluted,” he said at the Earth Day celebration in Taman Tugu, here, today.
Dr Mahathir was accompanied by his wife Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali.
Also present were Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin, Federal Territories Minister Khalid Samad and Water, Land and Natural Resources Minister Dr Xavier Jayakumar.
[More to follow]
- Bernama
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