Indonesia self-destructs (and we’re next door)
December 7, 2009 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter
They dig these canals to drain the peatland so they can then set fire to the devastated forest land
Why doesn’t anyone in government do anything about this other than to say it is difficult to police this vast country?
Sumatra, Indonesia (CNN) — The land still smolders, tinted with a depressing gray. Twisted hulks of tree trunks take on abnormal shapes. A dark black canal cuts through the wasted landscape.
It looks like a scene from an apocalyptic movie where an unknown force has obliterated all life. But this is the reality of Sumatra, Indonesia’s largest island…
this is just so so sad.