Anyone still living in Chiangmai mai is signing up to a long term serious health issue and probably their death warrant !


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3 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

This year, the day will be marked with an event on July 1 and 2 at Miracle Grand Convention Hotel under the theme “Better Air Quality for Better Health”.

What an apt place to hold the event as it is going to take a Grand Miracle to ever sort out the air pollution here....

A first easy step in Bangkok would be taking care of the buses. Replace the ones that are older than most of the population and repair the more recent ones that are spewing black smog.

I am sure there are other sources of pollution, but people living in the city are highly exposed to air pollution beside the road.

'stable'??...........more like 'sty'.

I wished some of the immigration procedures would as stable as the pollution in Thailand.

TAT slogan - Thailand's stable pollution: you can count on it.

In life, one needs to exercise discrimination. When you read something, unless it is from a source you have grown to trust, one needs to consider the possibility that the information is prejudiced, by editorial pressure, money, lobbyists, politics, and small men, with devious agendas. 

 

In this case, one does not even need to consider the report. All one has to do is smell the air, reflect back on the horrendously bad situation most of the country faced for four months or more recently, and realize the situation is getting far worse, no matter what these lying fools tell us. Believe them at your own peril. 

 

This is no doubt, an effort on the part of the feckless, and fabulously disingenuous army, to convince people things are improving, without lifting one finger, or spending any real money to fix, or improve the situation. The Thai army. Their lack of initiative, lack of nothing improves for anyone in this nation, while they are in power. Woe is Thailand. 

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Take a bus trip up north to Chiang Rai and you'll see the province is smoked out, visible smoke coming from mountain side burns and trash piles burning along the main road.   
Hard to believe anything serious is being done.

I went to Chiang Mai (city) a few days after Bangkok's Songkran frenzy. Went with a friend who never been there. We go up on a rented motorbike to Doi Suthep. Around 5 km from the top, there is a vantage point with nice views of the city, so I make him stop there to admire the view.

We could barely see or make out anything due to the haze, that is how bad it was, arounf 10 in the morning.

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 “stable in the past five years”   but remains at an unhealthy high level which has not been reduced.

Tell that to all the people in Chiang Mai who die from respiratory illnesses. 

6 hours ago, Lingba said:

and I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you

Or 'Tower' Bridge over Lake Havasu??

It’s Stably Polluted....  

60 million baht per tower.

16,000 towers for Bangkok alone.

= 960,000,000,000 billion baht

= 31 billion USD$

= 45 billion £

 

You can rebuild a whole country with that!!!!

Maybe they are talking about tourist figures ????

Edited June 25, 20197 yr by ianezy0

7 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Pollution in Thailand at ‘stable’ level for past five years

Stable.... meaning it has remained at exceptable figures if you use the Thai formula, however if you follow the W.H.O figures you get a different story.

7 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

As for similar problems in Bangkok and its vicinity next year, Pansak said the way to deal with that would be to use air-purifying towers, which cost Bt60 million each and can purify 10 million cubic metres of air per day. 

 

This means Bangkok will require at least 16,000 such towers, and this does not include the cost of the land needed to house these towers. 

 

You've gotta smile at the cookiness of some of the idea's kicked about to deal with this .. About as practical as a chocolate teapot but give them credit for imagination .. 

And whose paying the electric bill for the towers ..

Edited June 25, 20197 yr by Justgrazing
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8 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

“So, it would be easier and cheaper to just bring the sources of pollution under control,” he added. 

Never has one sentenced deserved a few hundred "duhs."

 

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The sugar cane burning this year was horrendous,yet illegal,but not illegal for the mills to accept burnt cane,make a lot of sense,Thai's will burn just about anything they can,nothing will ever change.

56 minutes ago, marko kok prong said:

The sugar cane burning this year was horrendous,yet illegal,but not illegal for the mills to accept burnt cane,make a lot of sense,Thai's will burn just about anything they can,nothing will ever change.

Yep - they like to burn things - all born with the "arson" gene!

Sugar cane burning will only get worse, the "Junta" was paying people to stop growing rice and start growing sugar cane, they never - unsurprisingly - thought it through very well!

Air purifying towers? What a joke. That's like filtering your drinking water after you sh!t in it. Solution? Don't sh!t in your water in the first place! The answer is to not use your atmosphere as a toxic dumping ground. Then it wouldn't be necessary to walk around like idiots wearing pollution masks. In civilized parts of the world, we put filters on our cars, not on our faces. 

Edited June 25, 20197 yr by Uptooyoo

What an incredible crock!

 

Stable means a flat line.....the northern part had from days to weeks the worst or near the worst AP in the world...

 

that’s not the definition of stable; more like dramatic increase 

As I've said time and time again,anyone in the government who opens their cake hole will come out with bs that the people have to accept.its the great department of porky pies.

SNAFU then.

12 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Thailand’s situation has been described as “stable in the past five years”.

To hazard a guess at the full quote:

"Regarding air-pollution, the horse bolted from the stable in the past five years."

12 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

Does this guy work for TAT ?

He's a very stable genius! 

Big Joke was dropped from the RTP and Pinnocio was promoted to the Air Quality department

Air purifying towers, 60 million baht? I have a better idea, but you would need more than 16,000. No electricity needed and low maintenance. Invented 50 million years ago.

 

They are called trees.