Image courtesy of The Star newspaper (Malaysia)
The past few weeks have been really bad with regards to the quality of air in Peninsula Malaysia. A few months ago most cities around the world switched off their lights on Earth Day to try and combat the effects of global warming. It was a good deed indeed but my question is how much will that do to heal the planet. The air in Malaysia gets particularly bad this time of the year, we are told that it is a result of farmers burning their fields after the harvest in Indonesia. I am not an expert on environmental issues but I do know that this is not a good thing, we cant live like this all the time.
I have noticed more and more people are taking a day off work becasue they are sick. How can this be stopped, can there not be a collaborated efffort by Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia to try and get rid of this haze? Its almost as though we are in a smoke machine and we are being smoked alive. I think we need to do more than just turn off lights for one hour once a year.
