Hassle Haze
Few days back,i thought i was lucky to be in Penang because the haze floating
and asphyxiating city dwellers in Klang Valley had exerted very little effect on us here.There was occasional raining and the weather was fair , but not today.
I woke up to a heaven-like room, deliriously opening my eyes to aspirations of smoke.The air tasted dry and bitter.The wind has blown northward, with haze flanking on its side to the Pearl of Orient.The wind was strong in the early morning, knocking and hissing at the sliding door in the balcony.It was sly, and ruthless and smirking too.My productivity has been reduced to -10, today is a rather lackadaisical day.Guess i have to call off my activities in the evening, and to prepare some masks too.
Why are we paying the price for faults done by others? This is an unjustified injustice done to us.An apology is not suffice to shoo the haze and clear our lungs.This problem or rather "disaster"has been bugging us for the last ten years.Lax enforcement and laws in Indo have induced worsening air quality in her neighbouring countries.It has impinged on our right to breath fresh and clean air.But, the perpetrators are still on the loose,while they become richer and richer, our air quality deteriorates each day.
As if global warming is not calamitous enough to have inflicted changes in the weather and sweeping fiery storms across the globe, these IRRESPONSIBLE earthlings still wants to add salt to the wound.
Enough is enough.Pressure must be exerted on the responsible government to halt this once and for all.Higher penalties and stricter punishments will all evaporate into oblivion if enforcement is flaccid.The Indo government is not sincere enough to help us out of this recurring dire state.Pointing fingers on Malaysia’s companies involved in the open burning is not the crux of the matter. Instead, working together with concerted effort to drive the haze away
should be our first priority.This is not something beyond our control.THEY JUST HAVE TO STOP BURNING.
Waking up to this predicament made me feel like garbage in an incinerator, steamy and suffocating.
We do not want to leave this piece of land, pictured as a barren land, with dusty air clogging our pores and nostrils to our posterity. We do not want to invent and destroy.
