Bangkok air pollution at unsafe levels

[MaiDong]

1 hour ago, MaxYakov said:

Central Thailand is starting to resemble India or Bangladesh. AQICN lists Thailand in the World Rankings as #4 behind Palestine, Bangladesh and India this morning:

 

 

It's disgusting, and shameful, yet nobody seems to give a <deleted> ????

[MaiDong]

These are two of the sites, recommended by the government, for monitoring the air quality in Bangkok.

Both are showing just 1/3rd of the PM2.5 levels being reported by several other international sources.

https://www.bangkokairquality.com/bma/?lang=en

http://www.air4bangkok.com/?lang=en

 

Until this kind of thing changes, I think we can expect to live in a filthy city.

 

[Don Chance]

I think they are burning more crops this years because of high unemployment, so they are growing more stuff, making more work for people.

 

Bad news if you are in quarantine and catch covid, even worse on the lung could be the push over the ledge!

[MaiDong]

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Edited December 14, 2020 by MaiDong

[Yom]

15 minutes ago, MaiDong said:

Can't successfully upload video

 

Perhaps there is too much dust everywhere?

Please stay patient, there's a lot of traffic at the moment.

Edited December 14, 2020 by Yom

[MaiDong]

6 minutes ago, Yom said:

Please stay patient, there's a lot of traffic at the moment.

 

We live 200 metres from Borromarachachonnani Rd, there's 24 hour traffic, it's relentless, but in the 3 months we've been living here it's never been this bad, which makes me think it's not just the traffic.

[ThailandRyan]

This morning in Bangkok the air is horrible.  Saw another thread about the Government being ordered to do something about it.  How many times have they tried and failed so far. Get the smoke belching vehicles off the road, tarp the flicking dump trucks with crud spilling out onto the roads and when driven over becomes airborne. Stop the burning and require filters on the stacks at the factories 

[MaiDong]

24 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

This morning in Bangkok the air is horrible.  Saw another thread about the Government being ordered to do something about it.  How many times have they tried and failed so far. Get the smoke belching vehicles off the road, tarp the flicking dump trucks with crud spilling out onto the roads and when driven over becomes airborne. Stop the burning and require filters on the stacks at the factories

 

None of that is difficult, it just requires someone with influence giving a <deleted>, but they don't, so it won't.

 

As I've said before, it's shameful, and they're pathetic.

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, MaiDong said:

 

None of that is difficult, it just requires someone with influence giving a <deleted>, but they don't, so it won't.

 

As I've said before, it's shameful, and they're pathetic.

And the neighboring country of Cambodia has done what Thailand should do as just one of the steps.

Cambodia bans burning of rice straw, garbage to reduce air pollution - Cambodia News - Thailand Visa Forum by Thai Visa | The Nation

[Yom]

9 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

And the neighboring country of Cambodia has done what Thailand should do as just one of the steps.

 

Also India is doing something:

In 2018, India earmarked $177.61m for two years to give farmers a

subsidy to buy equipment, such as mulching and seed drilling machines,

that dispose of crop waste without burning it.

For the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the government allocated $746m in farm

equipment subsidies. Farmers say lengthy bureaucratic processes to claim

the subsidies forces them to burn their crop waste.

New Delhi, a day in November 2020

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/12/surge-in-indias

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[garyk]

The reason I left Thailand for good. I would not wish Thailand air on my enemy's.  

 

[Elkski]

Its such a slow killer so these problems are ignored by government unless it gets in the news enough to cause harm to the 5% pockets. 

[Maha Sarakham]

Seems to be becoming (or already is) an annual affair this time of year.  Makes me wonder if coming in November for a trip makes more sense than December going forward.

[sirineou]

You want to reduce air pollution in Bangkok. Provide consumer incentives  for EVs and PHEVs . The MG HS PHEV .has a 30 mile electric only , and then Hybrid operation the gets an estimated 156 miles per gallon. But is priced at 1.4 million bht , mostly because of government taxes. 30 mile EV driving will take care of most city driving, then hybrid drivin if more is needed. I would buy one tomorrow if it was a little less expensive. Plenty of other inexpensive EV cars with good range in China,

Why isn't Kandi in Thailand they are bringing an EV car to the US a vehicle that got good reviews the Kandy  with a 180 mile range and after US government incentives a price $12,000-20,000,

Edited December 16, 2020 by sirineou