And what can the UN do?

What the United Nations organization can do about the problem of the Haze that is blanketing almost the entire western coastal areas from Singapore to Penang and possibly beyond is to create a task force to combat fire. This task force will operate with the best of tools and equipments available from all concerned countries and the cost will be borne by all the entities that are found guilty of this phenomena by the international court of Justice. This is worse than a military invasion, for it affects everyone and everything; not to mention human sanity itself; putting it in a nutshell.
The time for action is Now! The time for prosecution will follow or we are all doomed to dragging out tails behind our backs while life becomes more and more hazardous. The number one cause of suffering is physical pain, illnesses, from tooth ache to a major shift in the respiratory department; pain is a sin, someone once said, pain from any form of external affects will cause a major disruption among humans if not physically, mentally or even spiritually; it challenges our sanity to survive. The haze that is clouding our skies and penetrating our homes is causing a major shift in the collective human consciousness in this entire region or millions of lives living in ain due to one health reason or another; the greatest cause of anxiety is watching helplessly as everything around you is covered with smoke.You cannot give up smoking.
Not everyone has the privilege living in an air conditioned environment!! Look out your window and you will feel the heat and the people sweating just getting form one spot to another; we have to wake up to reality sooner than reality waking us up. If we pussyfoot and drag along this issue without active measures, we all of us living unfortunately below the shadows of Lake Toba across from the Straits of Sumatra will have to bear the discomfort of living with that choked up feeling.
The UN will need to create an emergency response unit like a fire fighting unit to combat wild fires all over the globe which will happen more and more frequently as time moves on. Blame it on global warming. Instead of giving lips service in the form of ultimatums, the UN will enforce action spontaneously to tackle the problem and only later will the lips service comes; even the United States cannot handle all its wild fires and it has one of the most well trained forest fire jumpers in the world. Fire spells destruction, period. Man cannot stand by and allow this to happen and keep on happening without acting, and the collective conscious screams for action not liturgies and lame excuses. What did they do when the oilfields of Iraq went up in flames, they sent in the experts to put it out, vested interest maybe but the job got done and the planet was saved from one of the worse air pollution catastrophe.

Marty admitted that the government had not ratified the ASEAN trans-boundary haze pollution treaty, which was signed some 12 years ago. He said it was still undergoing a legislative process at the House of Representatives.
This is only the beginning of the stumbling blocks that can crop up every step of the way towards immediate actions. The UN must act Now! Not after moe damage is done while waiting for more crap to appear n the way of action.

The Malaysian Government and the Singapore governments can spearhead the initial actions being affected by the haze, send all available manpower and technical assistance to affected areas and Indonesian will be under the direct order by the UN to allow for such aids the proceed with the Indonesian government full cooperation. Look at it as a very good opportunity to study and provide training for the personnel's, the chopper pilots the Fire Bombers and the host of other tools and equipments that will used to combat the hazards. Everyone wins and the cost will come form those executed for having anything to do with the cause of the fires.

“The approach must be one of collaboration and partnership, not one of apportioning blame here and there. Let’s focus on putting the fires out,” Marty told a press conference."
                                                              Marty Natalegawa, Indonesioan Foreign Mnister

Hopefully this offer for cooperation will be taken advantage of and not wasted through poor political expediencies. The door has been opened and before something said or done pisses off the Indonesian Government, we would wish we had been more conscious and less rigid in our protocols. Like the Minister said, lets take care of the fires first, then we can talk. This should be a green light for the UN to move into action through the governments of Malaysia and Singapore and the Philippines if the so desire to take part as it would be a good training ground for fire fighters and mergency response teams working together from around the globe., all paid for. Shit has hit the fence and not for the first time and this will continue into the future untill drastic changes are made; we have to awaken! Wake up!

"If the balance between male and female energies had not been destroyed on our planet, the ego's growth would have been greatly curtailed. We would not have declared war on nature, we would not be so completely alienated from our Being."
                                                     Eckhart Tolle. - A New Earth.
 And  it seems like Acceptance is our only choice for now. Like the Jinns we will enjoy the smoke or at least get used to it! We may even get high without the need to smoke, who knows what kind of vegetation is getting burned up over there. Do we care?!