PM Srettha to Address Wildfire Crisis Upon Return from Europe

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - During his mission abroad, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin expressed concern after receiving reports about wildfires in the northern region of Thailand.

 

This is due to the extensive impact of bushfires including smoke problems that obstruct both air and land transportation, and intensified air pollution issues resulting from burning, affecting the health of the population.

 

The Prime Minister has ordered all units, both civilian and military, to mobilize forces to fight wildfires, and establish strong prevention lines to control the spread of fires intensely. He also urged the public to protect themselves from air pollution by staying indoors, wearing health masks, and seeking medical attention if respiratory symptoms occur. The Ministry of Public Health has been instructed to provide comprehensive services to the public.

 

Reporters have noted that on March 16th, after returning from a mission trip to Europe at the invitation of the governments of France and Germany, the Prime Minister will personally visit the affected areas to monitor the situation and problem-solving efforts alongside responsible agencies.

 

By Naark Rojanasuvan

 

Source: NNT 2024-03-07

 

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[worgeordie]

He should have been thinking  , How to prevent them a while ago , he knew it was coming

if nothing was done , solution buy more leaf blowers , air cleaning machines ,beaters for putting

out the fires .....from China ,  too little too late 

 

regards Worgeordie

[Yorkshire Tea]

Stop calling them wild fires. It's arson.  Get the army in, boots on the ground & if you can't catch them setting the fires, catch them entering the forests & keep them out.

[jvs]

33 minutes ago, Yorkshire Tea said:

Stop calling them wild fires. It's arson.  Get the army in, boots on the ground & if you can't catch them setting the fires, catch them entering the forests & keep them out.

Who says they want to catch them?

It is all part of a well planned out game.

 

[Cardano]

I think this could possibly be a reaction to the BBC article in todays news "Thailand: 10 million sought treatment for pollution-related illnesses in 2023"

[spidermike007]

Calling it a wildfire crisis is just a deflection of the true problem, it is a farming crisis, it is a sugar cane crisis, it is a crisis that stems from a lack of authority on the part of the officials, and their total and complete unwillingness to impose the law upon farmers and refiners.

 

That is the crisis, this is a Sretta crisis, a PM crisis, a coward crisis, that's what this is. 

[jacko45k]

He is hoping it will rain before he gets back. 

[daveAustin]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

the Prime Minister will personally visit the affected areas to monitor the situation

Gawd, here we go. Smiling like a hillbilly at the fires won’t help, old bean. You gotta get your police force to actively chase down the arsonists, issue over the top fines and throw them in prison. 

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

During his mission abroad, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin expressed concern after receiving reports about wildfires in the northern region of Thailand.

It happens every year... why the sudden concern now.

[mfd101]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Calling it a wildfire crisis is just a deflection of the true problem, it is a farming crisis, it is a sugar cane crisis, it is a crisis that stems from a lack of authority on the part of the officials, and their total and complete unwillingness to impose the law upon farmers and refiners.

True, but as usual the expert commentators here on AN ignore the question: Why do poor farmers behave like this year after year?

 

ie People who barely know where their next meal is coming from, who have a passive attitude to life carefully reinforced on a continuing basis by religion and by the feudal state, who never have new & better methods explained to them including how this will help with their next meal as opposed to merely helping the (relatively rich) contractor ...

[bamnutsak]

He's gone for a week +, just after returning from a trip to Australia, so any crises will just have to wait.

 

IMO, not the best message to send to citizens, jetting off to Europe while they suck smoke.

 

 

[Denim]

He'll be as effective as King Canute addressing the tide.

[expat_4_life]

PM Srettha, the latest in a "long line of distinguished leaders" that knows how to kick the can down the road.

Edited March 8 by expat_4_life

[sammieuk1]

The address will start with "Dear fires please go out" except for one that I can heroically put out on my return from my jolly 🤔

Edited March 8 by sammieuk1
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[sirineou]

14 hours ago, Yorkshire Tea said:

Stop calling them wild fires. It's arson.  Get the army in, boots on the ground & if you can't catch them setting the fires, catch them entering the forests & keep them out.

You would have to arrest half the country country.

Burning is part of the Thai culture in the countryside.The people that do it are not some sort of deranged pyromaniacs, they are doing what they have to under the circumstances. 

These were techniques that worked when the population was smaller, and climate change had not reared it's ugly head. 

The only way that the problem is resolved is that the "circumstances" are changed. 

  Things got to change. The old way of doing business is no longer viable.  

An this is not some Ivory Tower opinion, two days ago we were almost burned out , we got the call from a neighbored to run to our farm because we wood were on fire and ti was heading for our farm, we got there as the flames were on our fence abs starting in the corner of our storage shed which was cluse to the fence, tried to get the well going but the wire to the pump had melted , quickly i found the burn cut the cable and spliced the wire. I was able to put the fire mostly out around our property by the time the fire truck arrived, and the worked on the woods. Now I have to go to the farm and replace sections of PVC pipe that melted. 

Lessons learned. Controlled burns around your perimeter to remove fuel. burry pipes, burry cable to the well, 

 

[Tarteso]

Blah blah…This time from his  AIR FORCE THAI😂

[trainman34014]

He won't be coming back until May then !

[puck2]

6 hours ago, mfd101 said:

True, but as usual the expert commentators here on AN ignore the question: Why do poor farmers behave like this year after year?

 

ie People who barely know where their next meal is coming from, who have a passive attitude to life carefully reinforced on a continuing basis by religion and by the feudal state, who never have new & better methods explained to them including how this will help with their next meal as opposed to merely helping the (relatively rich) contractor ...

 

The fire is not only set in the agricultural areas of Thailand. Here in the North they are "used" to lay fire in the forest. And it's not for mushrooms as you read so many times. It's for nothing, it's idiotic. It's in their genes!

They should do it every year near to all offices and officers, head quaters of big agricultural companies and their bosses, maybe that would help. Otherwise it's the same "procedure as every year": only words and no action. Money first .... people last; Thailand be ashamed!

 

 

 

Edited March 8 by puck2

[Sydebolle]

Maybe not a bad idea, after sweet talking the Aussies and the dirty farang in Europe, after letting two isolated cases of Swiss culprits going completely ballistic to the level or xenophobic racism of the finest order. 

My irrelevant concern would be the enclosed reading which, of course, is much less important than bashing on the Swiss as a nation and a historic ally of Thailand for literally centuries ...... 

It might require standing onto some huge toes of the bigwigs of oligarch eliterian Thai business tycoonism though ..... wonder, if he has the guts or creeps back under the big stone of Thailand's Game of Power ......... 

[ourmanflint]

Ban the sales of forest mushrooms completely. Make it illegal to have or sell these forest mushrooms. It can't be that hard and will stop the incentive for starting them in the first place

[Enoon]

9 hours ago, mfd101 said:

True, but as usual the expert commentators here on AN ignore the question: Why do poor farmers behave like this year after year?

 

ie People who barely know where their next meal is coming from, who have a passive attitude to life carefully reinforced on a continuing basis by religion and by the feudal state, who never have new & better methods explained to them including how this will help with their next meal as opposed to merely helping the (relatively rich) contractor ...

 

If action were taken against the farmers it would contradict a basic tenet of feudal maintenance.

 

To paraphrase Magna Carta:

 

"......villeins should not have fines/pressures imposed upon them so heavy that they would have to give up the necessaries of life...."

                        Feudal Britain, G W S Barrow, 1956.

 

To do so threatens the compact between serf and overlord.

 

It is already become shaky in Thailand.

 

Devotion to maintaining an anachronistic institution is, ultimately, what fans the flames of the polluting fires.

 

 

Edited March 8 by Enoon