Southeast Asia Getting Killed by Logging and Mining
When an airplane is approaching Singapore Changi Airport, it makes the final approach either from the direction of Peninsular Malaysia, or from the Indonesian island of Batam. Either way, the scope for natural disaster under the wings is of monumental proportions.
Phi Beta Iota: Environmental Degradation is high-level threat to humanity number three, and as with the other seven of the ten threats that the US secret intelligence community and the cabinet agencies ignore, not understood at all. Holistic analytics and true cost economics have no place in the US “pay to play” political decision-making system — or that of the Southeast Asian countries or anywhere else.
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