The Haze- What is sad about it..

With haze comes depression and those already struggling with this ailment feels even more agony especially those with respiratory problems. Looking out my window i could hardly even see the State Mosque which is hardly a kilometer away from my view. Yes somewhere in Sumatra, Indonesia they are having a bonfire to welcome much larger plantations all in the name of sustainable economic growth. 
Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particles, and biological molecules are introduced into Earth's atmosphere. It may cause diseases, allergies and even death to humans; it may also cause harm to other living organisms such as animals and food crops, and may damage the natural or built environment. Both human activity and natural processes can generate air pollution.
Indoor air pollution and poor urban air quality are listed as two of the world's worst toxic pollution problems in the 2008 Blacksmith Institute World's Worst Polluted Places report.^[1] Outdoor air pollution alone causes 2.1^[2][3] to 4.21 million premature deaths annually.^[4][5] According to the 2014 World Health Organization report, air pollution in 2012 caused the deaths of around 7 million people worldwide,^[4] an estimate roughly echoed by the International Energy Agency.^[6][7]

 
Malaysia and Singapore suffers the brunt of the haze that is caused by the fires form across the Straits of Malacca and it is ironic that these fires are the result of investments to grow oil palm and whatever else that spins money in the global market and a few Malaysian companies are being accused to be among the culprits.

Activists and experts have long identified the problems hindering the government’s efforts at preventing forest fires. These include ineffective enforcement of fines for companies found guilty in court of setting fires; lack of coordination between government agencies responsible for various aspects of fire prevention and mitigation; and lack of transparency over a government program to restore degraded peatland across the country.
Activists and experts have long identified the problems hindering the government’s efforts at preventing forest fires. These include ineffective enforcement of fines for companies found guilty in court of setting fires; lack of coordination between government agencies responsible for various aspects of fire prevention and mitigation; and lack of transparency over a government program to restore degraded peatland across the country.
Bambang Hero Saharjo, the Indonesian government’s chief expert witness in its prosecutions of companies found setting fires on their concessions, said one of the problems was that local governments were not serious about tackling forest fires, given the lack of funding allocated for the issue. Each district government often only allocates around $2,000 a year to fight forest fires, he said.-
Mongabay  Hans Nicholas Jong.

 In the meantime those affected by the toxic haze are forced to live with it wearing gas masks and closing down schools wondering when it will all end. It is in human nature to sit, wait and see what happens next and only to raise the red flag when shit hits the fan, when human fatality becomes a reality. It is beyond imagination of what the animals and the insects and even fishes must be going through in this yet one more man made catastrophe in order to serve his purpose. We talk of conservation of the species like the tigers and rhinos, the orangutans and various others, what a sham when it comes down to it we  have committed a genocide of other species just as it is happening to the Amazon. Without doubt, the plants and trees are the prime victims of this scourge, on top of loosing our large trees for timber we are also loosing plants that are our source of medicinal products. We have displaced many who had made the forest their domicile and deprived them of their livelihood. All these for what? Palm Oil! So the large corporations can reap the profits and the rich still gets richer by it. 

It is sad!