Paradise lost: Thais slam air pollution and trash for spoiling idyllic southern island

 

 

Thai Rath reported that Thai tourists visiting a little known southern island were left thoroughly disappointed. 

 

Pongsri, 51, and Daojai, 48, were visiting Koh Sakorn in Trang. 

 

They expected a beautiful sunset and a clean beach.

 

They got polluted haze and a stretch of sand covered in trash. 

 

Pongsri said the island could be beautiful but the air pollution and the rubbish had left her disappointed. 

 

 

Daojai said that she wanted to recommend the potentially beautiful island to friends in her home of Phattalung - but something needed to be done about the air quality and the trash before she would do that. 

 

A three minute video showed some of their experiences. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

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Thainess........air + pollution....no charge....flee for you, wencome ????

Yeah, that's the ticket. Slam that damn pollution! 

if only locals live they,some tourist maybe.then the rubbish and  anything else is down to them

Trash and most pollution just doesn't spontaneously pop into existence. Go to the mirror boy...

34 minutes ago, Emdog said:

Trash and most pollution just doesn't spontaneously pop into existence. Go to the mirror boy...

The air pollution come from Indonesia.

rich Malaysia company buy the forest in Indonesia, fire the forest for palm oil tree. 

 It terrible here now. Smoke, can not see blue sky at all.

i hate this people.

 

i show the good place to go in thailand. Not have rubbish. I go Saturday. Air ok. But now it will be bad.

 

 

This is the situation in the whole of Thailand, until no one feels responsible for the illegal fires, illegal dumps and the lack of education on the environment, the situation will worsen considerably!
Information for the tourism minister, here are two of the many reasons why tourists do not come!

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

Smoke, can not see blue sky at all.

i hate this people.

Ever visited the north of Thailand during Jan-March? 

Loved the picture of the orang-utans in the burned forest.

 

Was that picture taken in the Sumatran province of Fotor Choppe?

 

Rooster

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

The air pollution come from Indonesia.

rich Malaysia company buy the forest in Indonesia, fire the forest for palm oil tree. 

 It terrible here now. Smoke, can not see blue sky at all.

i hate this people.

 

i show the good place to go in thailand. Not have rubbish. I go Saturday. Air ok. But now it will be bad.

 

 

that poor little boy with crutches in the back of that one pic.

 

 

Gotta agree that the air pollution sucks but I didn't see much, if anything, of trash on the beach, you need to check out Pattaya for the complete experience ???? 

Palm Oil used for biofuels , promoted as such encouraged to use as  such, Thailand grows much also..stop using bio fuel problem of palm oil is gone but probably switch to sugar cane or such, theres  no easy answer.

Recently asked to not  burn my pineapple  fields and complied..............some locals (Thais) have not and will burn at night on the advice of head of village.

Most of the problems is in Thai hands.

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

i show the good place to go in thailand. Not have rubbish. I go Saturday. Air ok. But now it will be bad.

I live in the North of Thailand.  Much of the burning comes from the Thai side.  Other nearby countries are

also burning .  I really don't know where to move as seems everywhere in Thailand has air pollution.

Where do you think the cleanest air would be ?

Also.  are you and your friends starting a campaign to stop all this destruction that is ruining Thailand (and many other neighboring countries) ?

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

i hate this people.

Are you a buddhist?

17 minutes ago, rumak said:

I live in the North of Thailand.  Much of the burning comes from the Thai side.  Other nearby countries are

also burning .  I really don't know where to move as seems everywhere in Thailand has air pollution.

Where do you think the cleanest air would be ?

Also.  are you and your friends starting a campaign to stop all this destruction that is ruining Thailand (and many other neighboring countries) ?

The cleanest air is generally south of Bangkok a bit. Not now, though.

see that photo of kids with masks on. That will become the world's reality sooner than we think. If you won't be able to afford masks and aircon you'll die, the rest will live inside to survive.

What a <deleted> species we are ???? 

I went to Koh Sakorn in the late '90s. It was beautiful then. I had been thinking about going back, but now....

2 hours ago, Yinn said:

i show the good place to go in thailand. Not have rubbish. I go Saturday. Air ok. But now it will be bad.

You sound like a Chinese tour guide ?

3 hours ago, Yinn said:

The air pollution come from Indonesia.

rich Malaysia company buy the forest in Indonesia, fire the forest for palm oil tree. 

 It terrible here now. Smoke, can not see blue sky at all.

i hate this people.

 

i show the good place to go in thailand. Not have rubbish. I go Saturday. Air ok. But now it will be bad.

 

 

the meteo/accuweather said it was FOG, are you sure it's from Indonesia....anyway, always easy to blame the neighbors. BTW (in case you didn't know that means by the way) you make some comments when somebody here said it didn't like Thais but you use a most stronger word by saying, I quote you """ I hate this people """ so you have the right to hate Indonesians but some don't have the right not to like Thais, hummm you are quite interesting

3 hours ago, Yinn said:

The air pollution come from Indonesia.

rich Malaysia company buy the forest in Indonesia, fire the forest for palm oil tree. 

 

 

 

Ah, Thai people are not to blame for polution in Thailand ?  ????   

 

Most of the air polution in Thailand comes from Thailand. This is not only a problem in Koh Sakorn.  And it's not only air polution. The seas are so polluted by the discharge of unfiltered sewage water and the dumping of plastic waste that you cannot swim there anymore. 

 

It's a shame, but Thailand is the dirtiest country I've ever visited.

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, dimitriv said:

 

Ah, Thai people are not to blame for polution in Thailand ?  ????   

 

Most of the air polution in Thailand comes from Thailand. This is not only a problem in Koh Sakorn.  And it's not only air polution. The seas are so polluted by the discharge of unfiltered sewage water and the dumping of plastic waste that you cannot swim there anymore. 

 

It's a shame, but Thailand is the dirtiest country I've ever visited.

 

 

 

 

Look at the link above. Clean water, no rubbish.

the air usually cleanest in Thailand. 

You not know what you say. Not same Chiangmai, Bangkok here.

 

It come from Indonesia forest sure. Google if you not believe me.

 

Now, smoky here so much. Headache. 

 

Terrible.

 

 

It's the pesky smokers on the beach that caused it all. Dear oh dear keep up ????????????

4 hours ago, Yinn said:

The air pollution come from Indonesia.

rich Malaysia company buy the forest in Indonesia, fire the forest for palm oil tree. 

 It terrible here now. Smoke, can not see blue sky at all.

i hate this people.

 

i show the good place to go in thailand. Not have rubbish. I go Saturday. Air ok. But now it will be bad.

 

 

And I guess that you have not been inland Thailand and seen all the trash. Could possibly not come fom Indonesia.

3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Ever visited the north of Thailand during Jan-March? 

No. I not want to go. For what? 

The north, north east and central make pollution themself. 

 

South pollution come from Indonesia. Malaysia boss.

2 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Are you a buddhist?

Crass

3 minutes ago, Parsve said:

And I guess that you have not been inland Thailand and seen all the trash. Could possibly not come fom Indonesia.

Yes I see it. Up to them. 

Ranong and Phangnga up to us. We keep clean. 

 

* I clean the beach often with friend. 

Have rubbish from Indonesia. Noodle foam cup. So many. Maybe the fishmen throw it.

 

The trash is from Thai fishing boats. They treat the sea as their own personal garbage dump. TIT

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

Look at the link above. Clean water, no rubbish.

the air usually cleanest in Thailand. 

You not know what you say. Not same Chiangmai, Bangkok here.

 

It come from Indonesia forest sure. Google if you not believe me.

 

Now, smoky here so much. Headache. 

 

Terrible.

 

 

 

 

 

Clean water and no rubbish ?

 

The original article said:

 

Thai Rath reported that Thai tourists visiting a little known southern island were left thoroughly disappointed. 

Pongsri, 51, and Daojai, 48, were visiting Koh Sakorn in Trang. 

They expected a beautiful sunset and a clean beach.

They got polluted haze and a stretch of sand covered in trash. 

 

"sand covered in trash"  ->  Usually that is plastic from the sea.  

 

 

2 hours ago, Yinn said:

No. I not want to go. For what? 

The north, north east and central make pollution themself. 

 

South pollution come from Indonesia. Malaysia boss.

So all this comes from Malaysia and Indonesia as well I guess

4 minutes ago, White Christmas13 said:

So all this comes from Malaysia and Indonesia as well I guess

I talk about air pollution. Not rubbish.

 

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