as much as the little subsistence farmers burn, it'll not be as
much as those who deny the loudest..
i would look at the paper and palm oil companies which clear the
land for cultivation of paper pulp and palm oil trees...
in fact, i think the palm oil plantation owners are the main
culprits as the paper pulp people can still clear the trees and use
them for pulp.. but i wonder what they do about the undergrowth and
unsuitable trees..
the lack of will to go after these people is probably the root
cause of the smog.. heck! the one in indonesia who has the greatest
stake in this burning and all that is indonesia's richest man, you
think for one moment the gabrament there will go after the
fella?
what can be done is drastic.. but it'll work.. find evidence that
they have been burning.. then shut down the company, remove their
license, confiscate ALL the assets of the company and confiscate
ALL the assets of the owners of the company which came from the
activities of the company.. do not sell off the company but break
it up.. confiscate ALL the land and make it a national reserve and
then nationalise that place.. reforest it with the indigenous
plants and trees that made up that area..
in other words, hit the people who burn where it hurts the
most..
but again, indonesia's richest man.. you think they'd do it?
economics over everything else.. damn the people...
