This year the haze is critical - I believe this is the worst haze situation on the Peninsula. It was not this bad even in 1997.
The news reports say that millions of chickens are dying. Chicken prices will go up.
Other chickens are not laying as many eggs. Egg prices will go up too.
Due to sunlight being blocked out, vegetables are not growing as well or are dying. Vege prices will go up.
Peoples' health is being affected.
We need longer term solutions with Indonesia.
Jokowi is not turning out to be as great as he appeared to be one year ago. Other than lining up for food with school kids at the cafeteria things are slow as usual in Indonesia.
It is doubtful if Jokowi will allow foreign fire fighting teams into Indonesia to help put out the land clearing that are causing the haze.
We need to send our fire crews over there in a hurry to put out the fires. In 1997 we sent over 1200 firefighters to Indonesia. That was during the time of Soeharto and Tun Dr Mahathir. We cooperate better. Now its Jokowi and moron. One is a dud and the other has an ego. Even our native Javanese speaker cant seem to help much.
If cloud seeding helps, there should be intensive cloud seeding in Indonesia, over the hotspots. It may have better impact than cloud seeding over here. Again Jokowi must agree to our planes 'bombing' his country.
Going into the future we may need to spend money creating permanent fire fighting "bases" in Indonesia (for the haze season). Private or semi private, where we can quickly ship in high power pumps, heavy equipment, build water retention ponds, reservoirs etc to store water for fire fighting. It will be easier to mobilise and put out the fires. (Another billion Ringgit contract? This could be on the Defense budget).
The situation is really critical. You can hardly walk outside. As usual the gomen's response is neither here nor there. - http://syedsoutsidethebox.blogspot.my/
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