Pollution

[AD]

I hear on the radio today, that Thailand is a bigger producer of Carbon Dioxide than either China or India.
This is really serious.

[Rooster]

AD. Do you actually believe this bucket of BM? You have been in Thailand numberous times. And you have been to India...and PRC either via news and or PRC's policies. The UN and their carbon trading business companies are attempting to make money from, now, a weak country economically and politically. They are trying to make Thailand to be an example for SEAN. Indian and PRC are virtually ignoring the UN policies and agendas. India is continued to be UN recipient for funds without taking UN's population control and pollution policies. PRC is at the Security Consul and acting like developed country with ghetto head's attitudes. But we can not ignore the under developed infrastructures in Thailand like functional sewer system. And first of all, the industrial parks in Thailand are heavily and partly owned and operated by foreign companies from developed countries like Japan. Are these companies doing anythings significant to reduce and or eliminate their pollution outputs other than CO2 output? Are Thai EPA doing anythings to enforce the existing laws to properly control pollutions? Remember, AD. The UN is trying to become global government, but UN does not have their own military forces and does not have ability to tax or to levy tax. However, they are trying hard to have incomes and their private blue helments.

[AD]

Yes Rooster, but both India and China are progressing whereas Thailand has become stagnated without true leadership, so anything goes !

[Rooster]

AD. My daughters love to read and see the colorful pictures in the National Geographic magazine. According to the November 2007 article on "Most Polluted Places," the formal USSR, PRC, India are the top polluted places in Asia and Eastern Europe. Mexico, Peru, and Argentina are ranking top polluted places in the new world.

www.nationalgeographic.com

[ed browning]

I find little comfort in the fact that places like parts of India , China etc. would be more polluting than Bangkok. Much of the problems lies with the attitude and lack of knowledge of the Thai populace. It is up to all of us to set examples by condemning those things we know are hurting the country and its people. If you are exposed to high degrees of pollution for a number of years you develop asthma, sinus infections and possibly much worse.. In stead of trying to be proud of not being honestly labelled the worst why do not we start talking about how this place could be cleaned up.

[Rooster]

Ed. Education is not enough. Cities like Bangkok and etc. can not possibly exist without certain city planning and influences by oligarchy classes. In case of Bangkok, there were are minimum city planning and most constructions and layout were are done by those business elite groups who are patterning Bangkok to their old worlds. Only recently, certain small construction companies are building homes and businesses with modern methods...but it is still sitting on the undeveloped infrastructures like sewer system. To make real changes, we need to make changes at the Bangkok govenor office and admistrators by taking certain powers away from them. This can be done national/federal laws that would set comprehensive building codes and punishments for all cities and towns. Those structures violating these laws would need to be changed or would receive notice of abandonment, than the government could move in to impound and auction off to those companies who would make changes with government as land titles owner.

[Rooster]

POSTBAG

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E-mail: postbag@bangkokpost.co.th / Snail mail: 136 Na Ranong Road, Klong Toey, Bangkok 10110, Thailand

I like Thailand and have lived and worked in Bangkok for seven years. Yesterday, returning from upcountry in the morning, I rode the MRT to Silom.
I took the escalator in front of the Dusit Thani up and walked to the Saladaeng BTS station.
The walkway was dirty, dark, littered with cigarette butts, and not a pleasant sight or good reflection of a city that takes care of business.
I often wonder where my tax payments go. I was not proud of Thailand, and was saddened by this ugly stretch of new walkway.
Plastic bags in dirty canals, pollution spewing from old buses... we do not care enough.

DAVID SCHOLZ

Perhape, people like Mr. Scholz very need to organize protest at Bangkok city hall and tell Mr. Handsome DP to do his duties. DP members controlled Bangkok offices along with Bangkok MP's need to work harder and take less leisure time off to celebrate whatever events. I have never heard of Bangkokians protest against pollution and disorder.

[Leum Laaou]

We must lobby politicians for electric cars, hydrogen is a scam.

Why? You can generate your own electricity or purchase it from exisiting power companies.

The electric car is being killed-off because it is competition for hydrogen which, like gas, is a controlled substance requiring specialised means of production and distribution. Get it?

Hydrogen = Gas. Gas = Big Money.

Vote electric.

[macam]

They need to clean up all these market venders and stop them dumping all sorts of crap down the drainage system; all the spent oil or whatever goes down there blocking the drains up and attracting vermin!

[DocN]

Why do topics like these always are treated as some kind of olympics?

Just because India or Peru or Outer Mongalia are "dirtier" than Thailand makes the problem of polution in Thailand...what...smaller...less significant...not worth thinking about it???
You will almost everywhere find things that are WORESE in than in your place!
And that is the places you turn to, to point your fingers!
Why does NOBODY look at places that are much better and tries to DO something in that direction?