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用 El Niño 为纵火掩护的棕榈油共谋Palm Oil Complicity Masked by El Niño

国际 结构层 · 文化层 The Guardian ↗ 2026-08-25 § 链接
自然现象是结构性暴力的最佳掩体,将人为掠夺包装成天灾。
Natural phenomena serve as the perfect cover for structural violence, packaging predation as disaster.

这篇报道试图把印尼的烟霾危机归结为 "super El Niño",但这种叙事本身就是一种 cultural violence。将气候现象置于标题首位,实际上是在为背后的 structural violence 提供掩护:那些为了棕榈油种植园而大规模排干泥炭地的企业,才是真正的纵火者。

泥炭地本应是天然的防火墙,但为了资本的扩张,排水网络被强行植入,将土地从一个生态系统变成了易燃的燃料库。这不是天灾,而是一场精确的经济博弈。企业通过 "slash and burn" 这种低成本的表达方式清除土地,将环境成本直接转嫁给加里曼丹的底层居民。Suwadi 感受到的 "像抽烟一样" 的呼吸,就是 Potential 与 Actual 之间那个巨大的暴力差额。

总统 Prabowo 撤销许可证、逮捕 72 人的动作,在目前的权力结构中更像是一种表演性让步。真正的共谋者不在那些被抓的底层纵火员之中,而是在定义 "土地开发" 规则的权力中心。只要泥炭地被转化为资本资产的逻辑不变,所谓的 "资源投入" 只是在给一场注定失败的补救游戏买单。

这场烟霾跨越国境,让新加坡和马来西亚感到不安,但这恰恰揭示了元暴力的逻辑:只有当掠夺的副产品威胁到更高层级的利益时,它才会被定义为 "问题"。而对于那些在浓烟中无法呼吸的婴儿和孕妇来说,这已经是他们生命中不可逃避的、被定价后的生存代价。

The report attempts to attribute Indonesia's haze crisis to a "super El Niño," but this narrative is a form of cultural violence. By placing a weather phenomenon in the headline, it provides cover for the structural violence at play: the corporations that drained peatlands for palm oil plantations are the real arsonists.

Peatlands should be natural firewalls. Instead, drainage networks were forcibly implanted for capital expansion, transforming an ecosystem into a combustible fuel depot. This is not a disaster; it is a calculated economic game. Corporations use "slash and burn" as a low-cost expression of land clearing, shifting the environmental cost directly onto the marginalized residents of Kalimantan. The breath Suwadi describes as "like smoking a cigarette" is the precise gap of violence between Potential and Actual.

President Prabowo's revocation of permits and the arrest of 72 individuals are merely performative concessions within the current power structure. The true complicity does not lie with the low-level arsonists, but within the power centers that define the rules of "land development." As long as the logic of converting peatlands into capital assets remains, "government resources" are just payments for a losing game of catch-up.

This haze transcends borders, alarming Singapore and Malaysia, which reveals the logic of meta-violence: a crisis is only defined as a "problem" when the by-products of predation threaten higher-tier interests. For the infants and pregnant women choking in the smoke, this is simply the priced-in cost of their existence.