Archived REUTERS | Poor amongst hardest hit by Indonesian fires [1m25s] [2015-09-25] (youtube.com)
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Archived REUTERS | Poor amongst hardest hit by Indonesian fires [1m25s] [2015-09-25] (youtube.com)
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[–] 3dk 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
These plantation owners fuck over everyone and the environment for a couple weeks every year just out of convenience. I used to live in a South East Asian country, and when the wind blew the wrong way during slash and burn season, a huge haze cloud would swallow up the region and blot out the sun. Where I lived, hundreds of miles from the fires, no one went outside, unless they had to. The city became a ghost town for a couple days, the grossly sweet smelling air wasn't breathable for more than 30 minutes without risking health problems. I had a nasty dry cough for months afterwards, despite mostly staying inside. The scale of the haze created by these fires is hard to understand for anyone who hasn't witnessed it and to people living on the other side of the globe it is barely something that is newsworthy.
It is a disgrace that there are no international boycotts for products that benefit from the terrible, unnecessary farming practices that create this annual environmental disaster.
People who advocate completely unchecked capitalism, here is a good example of a negative externality and why regulation is sometimes needed.