5) Green Crimes – to be reported or to be ignored?

Source : Job Hazard by Hilary Chiew

In order to protect environment and nature, life of environmental journalist or activist is in jeopardy and danger. Their life has been threatened by company, organized crime groups, government and pollutants. Death threat, libel suits, abduction, physical assault always lingered in their life. It is proven by several cases that happened to some them due to the action that exposed/revealed to the world what exactly happened and what did happened.

Challenges and difficulties in getting information, especially from the local population that is beholden to the polluters for employment also be their obstacle to exposed green crime that happened in our world.

However, not all of them are willing to sacrifice their life for the sake of environment. Some of them have been bribed to keep quiet on certain issues.

Is it what we are looking for? We close our eyes because we are chasing towards development, wealth and glory. Is nobody are concern on what exactly happened behind it, we will heading a lot more problem related to environment and nature. More disaster will be arising.

Praise and pray that their life will be protected, so they could feed us with their report, journal and news that contain a lot of information so we could open our eyes widely to see the truth.

4) Humanity or money?

source : Cancer Villages by Tan Ee Lyn (Environment, The star 29 Sept 09)

Is it a result from greedy development without any humanity aspect and only for sake of business?

Why : Uncontrolled development and greed that lead to heavy pollution and bring danger to villagers, animals and aquatic life.

Source : Pollution that come from mineral mining on heavy metal that used for battery, computer parts and electronic devices that contaminated the lake.

Result : People (villagers), animals and also aquatic life that mostly died from air or water pollution. Villagers died from cancer and ingestion of pollution water. Fish and other aquatic life/plant died because cannot live in polluted water. Animals died from directly drinking contaminated water.

Who are the victims : Villagers

Who to be blame : Industrialist because did not care what they done and government because not take any responsibility.

Precaution : Nothing! The local mine only take responsibility to give some money for the villagers for their medical expenses.

Fact : This means the mine admits it is polluting the environment. If it did no wrong, it won’t give out his money.

Contaminated water from the lake flow to the river and other area, and run through to plantation area, other water source and also to groundwater. And of course it has affected crops such as paddy field and water bodies.
Imagine they produce any product from the contaminated source and it has been sold to other part in their countries. And even worse, has been exported to other countries. The issue like milk powder that has been contaminated with melamine will be arising again.

Is this what we looking and hope for? To have a lot of money and to increase economy, life of another human just have been ignored because they are nobody.


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