The Emergence Machine
Wildfires Spark Health Crisis
Toxic smog from Indonesia's worst wildfire season in a decade has sparked health emergencies and protests, NBC News reports.
The fires have killed at least 3,500 people in September alone, with officials resisting declaring a national 'karhutla' emergency, Al Jazeera notes.
Singapore is bracing for the haze as Indonesia's government faces criticism for its handling of the crisis, Reuters reports.
The World Bank warns that climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of such wildfires in Southeast Asia.
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E6 · E7 · E3 · E12 · E14E14 places every story on a stack of fifteen floors, from the fields under everything to the planet acting as one. This one sits on E6, organisms; the pressure it names: health crisis. Its words also reach E7 ecosystems, E3 chemistry, E12 states and E14 global.
Here it is a dynamic between organisms, ecosystems and chemistry: health emergencies and killed at least 3,500 people (E6 organisms), with wildfire season, climate change and wildfires (E7 ecosystems), and toxic smog (E3 chemistry).
The floor of bodies and health. In this briefing: health emergencies, killed at least 3,500 people.
The floor of weather and living systems. In this briefing: wildfire season, climate change, wildfires.
The floor of chemistry: what is in the air and ground. In this briefing: toxic smog.
The floor of states and force. In this briefing: Indonesia's government.
The floor of the planet acting as one. In this briefing: World Bank.