Warawut urges youth to be aware of global warming, emphasizing that humans must adapt to natural crises and points out data showing severe floods in Hat Yai repeating after 25 years.
On 5 Dec 2025 GMT+7, Warawut Silpa-archa, former Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, gave a special lecture in Suphanburi province, calling on the younger generation to recognize the escalating climate crisis and prepare for the heavy impacts of El Niño and La Niña phenomena in the future.
Warawut referred to the severe flooding in the southern region, noting clear data that such intense floods reaching roof levels last occurred 25 years ago (22–24 Nov 2000), demonstrating that natural disasters have not disappeared but have recurred with similar severity.
The former minister pointed out that weather patterns over the past 1-2 years have been highly unusual, such as flooding in Chiang Rai and rainfall in December. Currently, Thailand is experiencing the La Niña phenomenon, bringing cold weather and heavy rains, but it is predicted that in about two years, the situation will shift to El Niño, which will cause extremely high temperatures approaching 50 degrees Celsius and unprecedented drought.
Warawut confirmed that the increasing severity of global changes today results from greenhouse gases produced by human activities. Although there is a campaign to use electric vehicles (EVs), greenhouse gases cannot be entirely eliminated as long as humans exist on Earth. The key to human survival is adaptation before nature forces balance upon us. However, addressing natural disasters requires hundreds of billions of baht in budget. Therefore, adaptation, environmental balance preservation, and tree planting to absorb carbon dioxide are the most important solutions everyone should practice and pass on to future generations.