COMMENT | A greener, healthier economic recovery from Covid

COMMENT | Can we recover from the Covid-19 crisis in a greener way? Can we provide work for the many jobless while creating a more eco-friendly Malaysia? This is the way forward that many countries in the world are looking at and not just in the West mind you.

For example, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has a “green stimulus” programme to provide 63,000 jobs especially to labourers who lost their work during the virus lockdown. They will be planting saplings as part of the country’s “10 billion tree tsunami” programme to deal with climate change threats - heat waves, floods and droughts.

In my previous article, I wrote about how we can recover from the Covid-induced economic downturn by learning from America’s New Deal which provided unemployed Americans with millions of jobs during the 1930s Great Depression. Another suggestion was to think of creative solutions such as jobs to repair all potholes and dilapidated rural schools.

Pakistan’s example is like the shampoo, Rejoice 2-in-1, ...