I just got back from Cameron Highlands and I can say with confidence, environmental stewardship is meaningless there.
I saw many hills completely striped off of precious trees to make way for agricultural and other developmental purposes. Trash is unmanaged with the river so full of it. Dust as well as the crude sound of heavy vehicles fill the air. Nature has simply been overwhelmed; the rape is merciless.
This is somewhere near the entrance to Bertam Valley, a couple of kilometers away from Ringlet:
Somewhere in between Simpang Pulai and Kampung Raja, a great hill, much prouder than the one in the photo has one of its sides completely trimmed, raped of vegetation for a new highway; from the top all the way down.
Sometimes, I am amazed at the power humanity wields. We shape the world as if we were the gods themselves.
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