How to Stop Indonesia's Massive Underground Fires (Inverse)

From the article: With the Paris climate change talks just a few weeks away, people are going tobe talking about Indonesia.

Why? For the last couple of months, large swaths of Indonesia have been on fire, emitting crazy amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Researchers estimate that the last time it was this bad, in 1997, the fires released maybe as much greenhouse gas as the world did in almost five months-worth of fossil fuel burning. This year, the situation in Indonesia has been called “the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st century.” Through September and October, Indonesian burning emitted more than the entire United States economy.

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