Shawn Lum

Sep 22, 2023 | eco-business.com | Jessica Cheam |Tommy Koh |Shawn Lum

From the small window of the propeller plane where I sat in freezing temperatures, the landscape that greeted me below seared into my memory. A modern-day Mordor — barren, charred, marked with pools of murky water as far as my eye could see, with miniature steel structures, oil rigs, smoke chimneys, and Caterpillar trucks providing specks of colour. It was 2008.