How Chiang Mai became the world’s most polluted city
Burning fields are blamed for hazardous levels of air pollution in northern Thailand but the government is doing little to act.
By Dominik Sipinski
Published On 12 Apr 202312 Apr 2023
Weenarin Lulitanonda is passionate about clean air.
“The air people are breathing in northern Thailand is cutting their life short by three, four years. It causes cancers, mental health issues, other problems. And almost no one is taking up the cause, there is so much passivity,” she told Al Jazeera.
Weenarin is the co-founder of Thailand Clean Air Network, an NGO, and a former World Bank economist.
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