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Adrianna Tan@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io (2026-10-14 17:57:13)
Real life orange filter in Palangka Raya in Central Kalimantan
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Adrianna Tan@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io (2026-10-14 18:01:06)
One of the reasons why the fires here are so extensive and terrible: there’s a lot of underground burning of peat 

Most of this land is being set on fire deliberately to cultivate palm oil 

Palm oil fuels a lot of consumer goods around the world 

This happens every year but every decade or so, other environmental factors exacerbate the fires and they become immensely difficult to put out 

There are thousands of hotspots around Indonesia at the moment and the current nationalist government is refusing any foreign help with firefighting, saying they’ll put it all out fully in a month (even if resources and infra and reality doesn’t match up)

Meantime, Singapore and most of Malaysia has worse than Delhi AQI for more than a month now

People in urban Singapore and urban cities in Malaysia have more resources and ability to stay indoors with better equipment; people in poorer cities and towns do not

All of this has also destroyed a lot of traditional orang utan habitat