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Mehar Jauhar, a 21-year-old exchange student from India, has spent the past year studying climate change and its effects in Southeast Asia, and he writes in a blog post for the Institute for Sustainable Communities that the region is "on a trajectory that will make it a much larger emitter in the future, thereby intensifying the threat of climate change."
That's because the energy needs of the region's growing economies are outpacing the amount of natural resources it has, Jauhar writes.
"This implies that the countries in the manufacturing and product demands for the remaining populations of the globe, whilst consuming or rather overexerting their own limited natural resources, overexerting their population as well as their standard of living," he writes.
"It is not just because more than half of the world's population lives inside this circle but in fact, this is a key manufacturing hub for the world, with a majority of manufactured products coming from here; and wherein the rest of the world supply chains operate mainly...
with sustained population and economic growth expected to grow by 1.6 times over the next two decades under the business as usual scenario."
Jauhar's blog post is part of a larger effort by the AIF to raise awareness of
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