Bangkok’s children gasp for air amidst pollution nightmare

[spidermike007]

5 hours ago, cmjl said:

I was told that the particulates from petrol vehicles are finer so go further into the lungs than diesel particulates but why just blame diesel vehicles,the whole of Thailand is one huge mass of pollution especially in the North and until those in charge make it their business to enforce burning and emission laws nothing will change.

Diesel vehicles are an enormous culprit, if they are not very well maintained, and most vehicles here, especially trucks are not very well maintained.

 

So stop the obfuscation, diesel vehicles are incredibly toxic, and they are old technology that need to be removed from the face of the earth. Newer diesel engines are far better. The old ones need to be destroyed. 

 

Diesel pollution has been causing death and debilitating illness to communities across the United States for generations. That doesn’t have to be the case. There are steps that we can take—both in government and industry—that can push dirty diesel-burning engines out of the marketplace and out of our neighborhoods within a decade.

 

https://www.catf.us/2022/01/diesel-pollution-deadly-problem-united-states/

[jacko45k]

On 3/16/2024 at 12:12 PM, Nick Carter icp said:

 

    These days in th UK, car engines switch off automatically when the car stops .

Even buses have to restart their engines every time they stop 

Motorcycles have been doing that here for a while..... not sure about cars, but with EVs irrelevant.