Forest Burning Essay

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Introduction Deforesting is a serious matter around the world, especially for countries like Indonesia, Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Farmers and plantation owners are the two main industries that did the deforestation activity. For a person like me living in Malaysia, my neighbor country Indonesia is the perfect example that has a heavy load of deforestation activity going on in the country. In 1900, Indonesia was still a densely forested country; forest represented 84 per cent of the total land area. Causes the forest to disappear very fast, from around 170 million square meter of forest decreased to 98 million square meters by the end of the 20th century. People start burning forest, as it is the cheapest way to clear clogged woodland, with many villagers unable to buy or hire expensive earth-moving machines to make their land suitable for planting. At least three laws in Indonesia prohibit the burning and clearing of forests but the law is not strongly enforced. Externality Deforestation may come as a form of negative production externality, this is because this activity brings a lot of negative impact to the society. Every year around the middle of the year, Indonesia will have massive forest burning activity, and this always cause a negative externality to neighbor countries such as Malaysia and Singapore as when the forest was burned down, the haze blown to the neighbor countries caused low visibility and also hard to breath in. The haze not only causing health hazard, it causes schools to close down for a few days, some businesses can’t be run and also harmed the tourism industries. Other than that, by burning down the forest, the precious species wild animals are facing extinction too. Some very precious high value old trees were burnt and chopped down too. This is a production externality because by deforesting, the land that is

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