I have been suffering from the air pollution for the past 2 months . I have not experianced such conditions in nine years of residing in Chiang Mai .
Over the nine years i have seen that Thai people have the same regard for quality of the air as they do with a red traffic light . Burning leaves , houshold rubbish and developers burning the trees rather than spend extra money and cut the wood and dispose of legally . That list is far from a natural phenomenon .
I read of the blame for the fires in the forests rests with the mushroom trade . If so surely something can be done to stop the trade .
However one must concede that forest fires can start from lightning for example . Add the fact that here in the North has had very little rain this year and that can not be blamed on anyone . Last year it never stopped raining and the air was good .
The Phuket Governor is not totally wrong .