I feel so terrible. These are totally avoidable situations and yet we keep losing live to it. Wild fire are dangerous and not only cause damage to properties globally, they also affect wild animals and lead to extinction of rare species. Men are also killed as a result. I think there should be a global effort to stop all form of indiscriminate bush burning.

Check this out....haze from the fires in Indonesia have killed over 100,000 people! This is horrific. It says that this is an annual thing which makes it even worse. How can they let this keep happening? I just don't get it so many deaths that are just in vain and lives and homes ruined. It's horrible but makes me so thankful I live where I do.

I've never heard about this issue before.  It seems typical for the region, however.  Economy at all costs, especially when you have two trillion people living in these geographically small countries.  And you wonder why environmentalism is a losing battle.  The U.S. and other civilized countries can do all they want.  If a place like Indonesia is willing to burn down all their forests to manufacture palm oil, you're fighting a losing battle.  Again, I keep getting back to this idea: Why are we considered the barbarians in the world?  Most of the world are one step above apes.  They're heathens.  What Reagan said to Nixon was correct.  We treat these people as equals?  We leave our fate to people who don't even wear shoes?  Absurd.