Smoke Pollution in Indonesia
Yohanes Krisnantyo Adi Pinandito
Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
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Location: Magelang, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia
In the photograph, there is a man who uses mask to prevent respiratory disease by pollution. In 2015, Indonesia experience one the Worst country’ s air pollution. On October 14, there were 4,719 hot spot of fire observed burning simultaneously in the forest of archipelago, emitting approximately 80 million metric tons of CO2 in a day-five times average daily emission in the U. S. In a week, the blazes in an Indonesian forest just 5 %-10% of Indonesia’ s annual greenhouse gas emissions. And the effect of the fire forest is upward of 75,000 cases of upper respiratory infection.
Fire forest in Indonesia is only one case that human activity will impacted to climate change and global warming. Fire forest makes average temperature increase and the hazardous gas will increase case of respiratory infection disease. Stop the global warming with stop do harmful activities.
Reference:
Average daily emissions in the United States amount to 15.95 metric tons of CO 2 per day. See Nancy Harris, Susan Minnemeyer, Fred Stolle, and Octavia Aris Payne,“ Indonesia’ s Fire Outbreaks Producing More Daily Emissions Than Entire U. S. Economy,” World Resources Institute, October 16, 2015, http:// www. wri. org / blog / 2015 / 10 / indonesia % E2 % 80 % 99s-fire-outbreaks-producing-more-dailyemissions-entire-us-economy.
“ Major Atmospheric Emissions from Peat Fires in Southeast Asia during Non-Drought Years: Evidence from the 2013 Sumatran Fires,” Center for International Forestry Research, 2014, http:// www. cifor. org / library / 5025 / major-atmospheric-emissions-from-peat-fires-in-southeast-asia-duringnon-drought-years-evidence-from-the-2013-sumatran-fires.