Usually, the haze issue may consider as natural disaster due to the dry season. In Indonesia, it may not only consider as natural disaster but also human factor and it has practically become a permanent fixture every year. (The Associated Press, Jakarta, 2013) The haze issue is an annual concern as traditional slash-and-burn farmers and modern corporate pulpwood and palm oil plantation companies burn Sumatra’s forests and peat lands to clear and for agricultural use. (France-Presse, Singapore, Indonesia tussle over haze problem, 2013). In this case, haze issue is undergoing in the political, social and also economic environment.
Recently, Indonesia faced to the issue again because the fires across giant rainforest. Jakarta dispatched planes and helicopters to battle the blazes in peat swamp forests as well as plantations in Riau province on Sumatra Island, where the smoke easily drifts across the sea to the two neighboring countries. (The Associated Press, Jakarta, 2013) High above the vast Sumatra Island, satellites identify hundreds of plumes of smoke drifting over the oil palm plantations and rainforests. (Vidal, 2014) According to the Indonesian forestry ministry official, the responsibility due to the haze issue was shift back to Malaysia and Singapore because both of their pulpwood and oil palm plantation companies which invested in Indonesia were involved and responsible for the issue. So, the haze issue was directly affect foreign business especially in the pulpwood and oil palm plantation industry because there are many subsidiaries of Malaysia and Singapore companies located in Indonesia.
Since the haze issue is the worst in seven years, Singapore Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam and his Indonesia counterpart Marty Nataleg...
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...d fly back to Singapore due to the hazardous level of pollution. (The Associated Press, Jakarta, 2013)
Besides that, the air quality is officially described as “dangerous”, and most people are wearing face masks, even indoors. Communities have had also to be evacuated and people advised to remain indoors not because the transport has been disrupted but more than 50,000 people have had to be treated for bronchitis, eye or skin problems, asthma, and other respiratory illnesses in Sumatra. (Afrizal & Perdani, 2014) On the other hand, dozens of house were burned down by forest fires, and ecosystem also been effected. According to the news, a leopard with leg injuries fled from a forest into a village. (The Associated Press, Jakarta, 2013) Haze issue also expected impacts of climate change will warn of the cities becoming uninhabitable for millions as temperatures rise.
How can we prevent catastrophes like the dust storms of the Southern Plains and the pollution crisis in Delhi from happening in the first place? they should stop polluting the air. there pollution habits cause the sky to be filled by smoke. they continue to burn trash and such items like plastic buckets. that make dense smoke when burned that smoke gets picked up by wind, they are in serious danger of getting cancer and such horrible diseases. they need to purify the air but the workers that could do that have suffered the symptoms of they air pollution. the symptoms of this pollution is breathlessness giddiness and chest
George should implement a new strategy for Ardnak Plastics Inc. so that they do not consistently go over EPA guidelines, and should speak with headquarters so that they could invest in new smokestack scrubbers. Over all relocating will not solve the problem but would only make matters worse. George and Bill should pay the fines that have already been levied and find ways that would allow them to continue with their emissions but under the correct
Pollution is a massive problem, due to burning excessive amounts of fossil fuels and produces global warming. The rising in temperature of earth has resulted huge melting of polar ice caps, flooding of low-lying areas, and also rise in sea levels. If these conditions conquer the surface of earth it will face radical changes. Hence, the ozone holes are also being created trough this process, that creates a harmful UV rays that enters the earth surface. Apparently it affect human life trough causing diseases like cancer. Melanin that present in the skin reacts trough these high wave radiations. Skin cancer is one of the major forms of disease that known to be caused due to these reactions of the pigment present in the skin and infra-red rays. Besides that, when burnt sulphur, dioxide gas will also be produced. This factor forms acid rain. Acid rain could leads to destructions of most of monuments that were made up of brickwork or marbles. Even a lot of crops are affected due to the acidification of loams.
Forty years ago, Indonesia was known among scientists of human ecology as a land with exemplary sustainability in its agriculture and industry (Henley 2008: 273). However, a growing and uneven population distribution, large socio-economic inequalities, and a recent history of corrupt governing have led to severe problems in the management of its natural resources (O’Conner 2004: 320). Primarily, this refers to the management of Indonesian rainforests. Globally, tropical rainforests are like carbon sinks, storing 46% of the world’s living terrestrial carbon. Due to this, deforestation causes approximately 25% of the world’s total carbon emissions (Danielson et al. 2008: 349). Indonesia itself has a rapidly depleting supply of rainforests. In the fifty years from 1950 – 2000, Indonesia lost forty-percent of its rainforests, decreasing from 162 million hectares to just 98 million hectares. Current estimates state that from 1996...
Research shows that every year 2.4 to 4.6 million people die from causes directly related to air pollution. Many of these fatalities are linked to indoor air pollution as well. Air pollution is expanding at such a fast pace that there are more deaths per year linked to air pollution than to automobile accidents. As the world continues to increase in the amount of people, air pollution will continue to rise as well. With an all time high, seven million deaths in 2012, countries such as China, and India accounted for approximately thirty percent of those deaths. To go along with facts such as those, China has been ranked the worst, in terms of populations directly affected by poor air quality.
“The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating.” Says American lawyer, Eliot Spitzer (Eliot). This is the most accurate statement about global warming. The environmental issue has seen an incredible escalation lately, and the effects on our environment and especially our health, are desolating. There are many readily identified and advertised effects of global warming. The obvious climate change, the pollution of air, the destruction of ecosystems, and plenty more. But those all impact the planet. And many ask “why does that matter to me?” True, those are huge effects on the planet, however they can have disastrous consequences on humans as well. If we continue to destroy our planet through global warming,
The evidence clearly provided in this essay strongly supports the argument that greenhouse gases caused by air pollution are the main cause of anthropogenic climate change. The tables and graphs demonstrate just how greenhouse gases contribute to climate change. As is evident, climate change is an ever growing problem globally. Due to the increase in anthropogenic air pollution, greenhouse gases have amplified also, as shown by table 2. Figure one shows how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased exponentially, mirrored by anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide. The various examples described clearly support the argument that greenhouse gases caused by air pollution are the major anthropogenic causes of climate change.
Petronas Chemical Group Berhad as a major chemical industry player in Malaysia has work hard for conserving the environment in order to be a responsible corporate citizen. They have been continuously promoting
Vidal elaborates well on the social conflicts due to deforestation and new companies in the article “Sumatran Rainforest Will Mostly Disappear”. He claims there have been 600 major conflicts within the plantations. The conflicts and effects between the villages and companies induced over five thousand human rights abused followed by “twenty-two deaths and hundreds of injuries” (paragraph 8). Sadly, many of the community villagers have to work at the factories due to losing their resources from the wild. Many official
Air pollution according to the Wikipedia << is the introduction of particulates, biological materials, or other harmful materials into the Earth’s atmosphere, possibly causing disease, death to humans, damage to other living organisms such as food crops, or the natural or built environment>>. Therefore, human being should be aware of the facts that the environment and all living creatures are dying. They need to understand the importance of natural items, the nature, etc…
Everywhere Malaysian go or stay we been interact with pollution. If the pollution continue worst what will happen to our future children that we call future leader. In that case,
From the 1900’s, the Industrial Revolution saw the large-scale use of fossil fuels for industrial activities. Therefore, they created many jobs for the people. And many people moved from rural areas to cities, making the excessive cutting down of trees so as to create an area for settlement and area of construction of industries. Natural resources are being used extensively for construction, industries, transport, and consumption. All this has contributed to the rises of greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere. Where as the industries operated by man and the vehicles used imply the use of fossil fuels. And the burning of fossil fuels causes the production of these harmful gases that lead to the depletion of the ozone layer. As the ozone layer is depleted the increase of global temperature known as global warming.
...ffects on human health. These have high negative effects on low income areas, as a result of pollution, visual, oral and air, as well as high levels of overcrowding. The World Health Organisation predicts that in the next 30years most of the world’s population growth will occur in cities and towns of poor countries. This rapid, unplanned and unsustainable pattern of urbanisation, is creating cities into focal points for environmental and health hazards (World Medical Association, 2010).
they create many breathing and heart conditions like cancer and other threats in the body, that is why children who are exposed through air pollutants are most likely to have pneumonia and asthma.
Here, we could see that the condition of the world which face a big and global problem at that time that might lead to a huge destraction in the future which created many demands from the International societies to start thinking about the problem by conducting several conventions and ends with Kyoto Protocol could be assumed as an input that came from the environment. By the demands and the supports to the Kyoto Protocol which at that time arose, Indonesia ends with ratified this Kyoto