"Take a jigsaw puzzle of our planet, an amazing planet, and you'll have amazing pieces to fit there.
Rivers, oceans, land, people, 8 million species, and they all exist in perfect harmony," says Satya Tripathi, secretary-general of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet.
But "we are unraveling it piece by piece without even understanding what the picture is," he tells TV's The Impact.
"We really need to see the big picture."
He's referring to climate change, which he says is becoming more destructive.
"If you are not mindful of it, if you do not understand what it does to you, you will have the kind of disturbances that you are seeing now on the west coast of the United States," he says.
"The disturbances, the global warming, will take it (the water) all away and pour it in places that neither have a drainage system nor the ability to process it in terms of absorbing capacity of the land."
And that's how you have these floods where roads and highways and bridges and everything literally washed away, he says.
"It's a challenge of where does the water fall and that you don't control.
That's up to nature to decide," he
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