We all know this to be true. There is a sense of total social and cultural degradation everywhere. People move around in a state of numbness, like zombies, too afraid to be scared. The irony is that in recent years, we were being told that we were over populated and this was causing deforestation. Well the population problem is surely being solved, it is decreasing rapidly and but with it, so is forestation as well.
Wood is used for coffins, cooking at funerals and several other custom rituals.
There is a kind of domino effect, every aspect of life is being affected with this epidemic. Standards of living and life expectancy are being lowered. I know this sounds eerie. These effects are not generally noticeable to the international communities, e.g. diplomats, UN, NGO and other Representatives, because they do not live with the people but under some type of secured premises. Those working in the medical field can be witnesses to deteriorating conditions in hospital, but still not to the social conditions.