If the government were serious to begin with, we could have avoided a repeat of this type of disaster. |
There had been warnings that the combined threats of destructive logging and an increase in extreme weather events caused by climate change would intensify the impact of disasters. |
This is a failure of the implementation of laws and a failure of policy. |
We already have a legacy of over-logging, and I think it is imperative that the government should protect the remaining forest cover, which has already gone beyond the ecological balance. |