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This 10-page paper discusses air pollution in Southeast Asia that is caused by forest fires. Focusing on the Indonesian fires of 1997, the essay demonstrates that such fire (and resulting pollution) could have been avoided, and that governments and private industry did not act responsibly in either preventing the crisis or solving it. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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that sprung up throughout Indonesia between April and November 1997. The resulting smoke from the fire (which lasted for several months), covered
not only Indonesia but also Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, southern Thailand and the Philippines (Sastry, 2002). The smoke was, however, more than a standard campfire or leaf-burning smoke - this was
eye watering, respiratory inducing haze that impacted the health of much of the population of Southeast Asia. It was common to see dreadful photos of people walking down streets of
Malaysia and Borneo with surgical masks clutched to their faces. In addition, the fire contributed to a significant release of greenhouse gases,
destroyed a huge part of already dwindling rainforest and destroyed habitat that housed threatened or endangered species of plants and animals (Sastry, 2002). This cost didnt even include that of
the destruction of commercial timber and increase in health care costs due to increased cases of respiratory illness and distress (Sastry, 2002). In terms of health, people are still suffering
the aftermath of those horrible, smoky days of 1997. The end result was a total of 7,700 square miles of forest land
burned in addition to the health havoc it wreaked on the population of South East Asia (Linden, 1998). At the height of the fires, in September, air pollution in Malaysia
reached alarming levels (Manuel, 1998). Hundreds died from respiratory illnesses related to the fire (Manuel, 1998). And on September 26, an airline crashed in Indonesia, killing 234 people(Manuel, 1998). Investigations
of this air crash, which was Indonesias worst, suggested that the haze from the fires was a contributing factor - the airplane crashed into a mountain that the pilots could
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