Months after floods killed more than a thousand people across Sumatra, residents are still digging their way out of the wreckage. While survivors are eager to rebuild, many just can’t shake the fear that the next catastrophe is just around the corner.
  • arbilp3@aussie.zone
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    21 days ago

    Excellent article with great photography but the reality on the ground is horrific.

    Environmental monitor Nusantara Atlas estimates that in the last 25 years, almost 4.5 million hectares of forest in Sumatra has been lost — a land area four times larger than Greater Melbourne. Many companies have been carrying out significant land clearing legally, with government permits, but large swathes of land have also been illegally cleared.

    Just how much the government is doing/will do is questionable as the article conveys. Meanwhile, these rural communities suffer terribly. Greed coupled with climate heating creates more climate heating and we are jyust as guilty in Australia.

  • arbilp3@aussie.zone
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    21 days ago

    Seems to be a natural reaction, ‘fight or flight’ or stay or get away. Same happens here after catastrophic bush fires and floods. Some people want to stay and rebuild and others want to put the traumatic place far from themselves. Some of course have no choice.