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.


~ just think and act as a normal human being, then you can be 'normal' ~