Around 100,000 fires are burning causing a toxic haze. Many schools and public events have been closed due to health risks. A copious amount of greenhouse gases are being released due to the fires being peat fires. These fires omit 10x more methane than a regular fire. "Every dry season, parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua areas are reduced to smoking, burned-out landscapes, as palm oil and paper-and-pulp plantation farmers burn forests to cheaply clear agricultural land." Even worse, the monsoon winds blew the haze northeast from Indonesia. This is actually a bigger problem then it may seem. Global warming before was a big enough problem on its own and now this is contributing even more. 7,000,000 people die each year because of global warming/air pollution. What is sad is that a majority of it can be easily stopped.
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