GeorgeCross

i'm surprised this doesn't happen more often and with greater precision and planning

i was once in a bank here down south and i swear there must have been 100M baht in 1000baht bundles on a table behind the counter (approx half meter cube of money) - the only security was a 9 stone 60 year old guard picking his nose in the carpark. crazy.

13 hours ago, unamazedloso said:

Is this in Bkk only? I really dont want my kid in school but because we have to travel all the time if he is absent too much he would be forced to stay down. The pm2.5 is much worse in kanchanaburi than bkk but the teachers are so ignorant and know only the lies the media and their friends say.

don't worry the Thai celebrities are getting involved now.. come monday every thai woman north of rayong will be a budding climatologist

if i'm honest some of the locals could do with a mask on all year round 

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

From the Phuket News:  "embrace the longevity-enabling optimistic outlook for which Thainess is foremost and firmly rooted. Mai Pen Rai na, Yaa Kit Maak ไม่เป็นไรนะ อย่าคิดมาก – It’s alright na, don’t stress it!" 

 

Its why they just go with the flow Thomas...…..change is hard, its work, its a fight, just accepting something is as it is, leaves one as a part of the problem.  If your kids throw trash on the ground, do you just walk by and leave it, or do you pick it up and put it where it belongs.  To accept things as you see them as being just fine is not a solution to the ever widening issue.

this is why i prefer stoicism to buddhism. a stoic would not let the litter or the litterer bother him as it is beyond his control. he would however calmly put the litter in a bin as he always strives to be the best version of himself.

1 hour ago, herwin1234 said:

i bet all the respondents saying "the governement" isnt doing their job, dont drive a car or motorcycle but all drive a bicycle.

i drive a car, bike and motorbike

i don't however burn 600,000 rai of sugar cane plantation annually.

10 hours ago, Destiny1990 said:

Probably busy With chasing these Foreigner pornstars.

yep nothing to go on but a random big white dick and they'll track it down in 24 hours

20 rai of land sending smoke 500m into the air.. cannot.

15 hours ago, konbit said:

Before calling a 17-year-old girl who is successfully operating in international politics (instead of spending 8 hours a day on internet celebrities' Tik Toks, like most people her age) a "retard", maybe you should educate yourself a little bit on the distinction between particulate matter and the CO2 that causes global warming. 

i thought her dad wrote all the little fraud's her posts for her  

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

The local police station acknowledges the problem but cannot arrest wrongdoers, because the arson takes place at night.

this raised my eyebrow when i first read it. so why? they don't work at night? no torches? all drunk by nightfall?

makes no sense

can't they just pop round in the morning and arrest the landowner?

2 hours ago, Bassosa said:

Can you explain to me why?

Why aren't the people who have to endure the "black snow" allowed to demand immediate action from their cane grower neighbours until ASEAN gets together and "tackles" the issue?

Cane growers are part of the social fabric of their respective communities. Why can't they be held accountable for their actions?

Why do these issues always have to be dealt with on a macro level, considering the complete lack of effectiveness.

What's stopping a neighbour addressing another neighbour about rubbish burning? Does that need to go to ASEAN as well?

are you trying to stop the "snow" or the smog?

because if its the latter asking the 2 farmers next door (or 20) to borrow a tractor next year isn't going to help much 

fires today seasia:

thats why it needs to be ASEAN wide otherwise they're just flicking peanuts at elephants

5 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

The odd thing about that issue is....

 

Agricultural burning, along with garbage burning, is a considerable source for air pollution in Thailand and including in BKK (along with diesel emissions, industry, construction etc.)

 

But in most all of the Thai news reports this year, the blame is placed almost entirely on vehicle emissions and rarely are the issues of agricultural and waste burning even mentioned as causes. 

 

It's almost like, someone somewhere in authority here really don't want anyone to focus on the agricultural and waste burning aspects of all this.

 

yeah wonder who could be setting that narrative..

9 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Banggood.com has them:

i'd buy that just to see the look on people's faces as i walked around Tescos

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The Pollution Control Department reported at 8am on Monday that the level of PM2.5 dust particles in Bangkok and surrounding areas averaged 47-75 micrograms per cubic metre.

was 111mg on my terrace when i woke up this morning (hua hin)

100+ again, 3 days running now

so excuse me if i don't shed too many tears for my bangkok brothers and sisters right now.

33 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Perhaps if they got groups of people together and blocked the entrances to sugar cane factories around the country, chaining themselves to vehicles, poles, fences, gates etc etc and muscled up enough media and kept the attention focused on this, the government might have to do something, but I can't see that extreme measure happening, although it needs to be done, nationwide to get some action done, after all it's Thailand's 2nd largest export and there are a lot of $'s at stake, me for one, stopped buying sugar ????

 

it needs to be done ASEAN wide

21 minutes ago, puck2 said:

 

Your view; Cambodia is the main culprit of the "gulf air pollution".

how do you e4xplain this situation  ----->

 

err cr@p data?

lets look see..

i dunno you decide?

(windy, airvisual, aqicn.org/forecast/asia)

all i know is i'm sitting in it and tracking it every day and we aren't producing it in hua hin (we don't have enough cars or burning fields).

the wind is blowing from the east across the gulf not from bangkok and when that red dot from cambodia hit us our aqi went from 100-180 overnight.