Sunday, November 18, 2012

Orang Rimba - Happiness Lies in the Forest

If you happen to see, please please stop and take some time to watch this video and share it as much as possible.

This video hits me pretty hard. It's about the ongoing deforestation in Indonesia for the palm oil industry and how it affects the ingenious people. Often, we think deforestation are merely trees being chopped down, land being cleared.

What we often miss out are these people and all the animals living in the forests, this is their home. You can't just simply integrate them into cities, they'd rather die. On a similar note, you can't put someone from the city into the rainforest, they'll starve.

I'm not advocating boycott palm products, they are much more industries out there that are causing rainforest destructions. But i think it's wise for the government to earmark lands to be left untouched. These rainforests are the lungs of the earth, if we lose them, we're gonna have a hard time breathing.




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