If you look at the size of fires, it is clear that it is the large plantations and not just “poor farmers” burning to clear land for planting palm oil farms and plunder the earth and globe for short term profit and quickening the death of the planet – which they delude themselves into believing that can buy their way to safety.!
For poor farmers in Indonesia, it is hard economics and not green issues like environment protection that dictates what they do.
This is why they are likely to continue with a practice that has been used for generations, Mr Fadli said. “But we are not like that,” he was quick to add.
He insisted his company does not use the slash-and-burn method, but was hard put to explain why there were burnt logs and branches in some parts of the plantation. Also, a worker was using an excavator to flatten land that had obviously been burned.
Mr Fadli declined to reveal the name of the company he works for or the size of the firm.
via Haze update: Burning 'the cheapest way to clear farm land'.
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