Malaysians are truly dungus. Even our most educated people unquestioningly believe whatever the media tells them.

Ya, and we must put all our trust and faith in such "experts" because we ourselves don't know any better. Is that what you mean?

ROFL!

And that's where our stances differ. I do not separate the politics and the question of "who profits" from the discussion because the two are inseparably linked to this matter.

The problem with academic discussion is that it is not just divorced from the realities of life, it is also because academia is funded and encouraged by real life political-economic power bases and factions.

One alternative we have is to shift our economy into one that is less consumption based, to one that is more sustainable.

One problem that people will always face is the Malthusian dilemma of not just the scarcity of food but also of raw materials and energy.

The minerals we can extract from Earth are FINITE. This includes anything we will use as nuclear fuel. This finiteness of resources, and the eventual outcome that we WILL use them up, is a shadow of an Easter Island type of extinction that hangs over the entire human species.