A firefighter walks through a part of the forest that was charred during a forest fire on April 22, 2019, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Reporter covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow May 7 at 9:20 AM In mid-March, the city with the worst air pollution in the world wasn’t an industrial powerhouse populated by millions. It was Chiang Mai, the tourist-friendly cultural center in northern Thailand.
The government “should find a way to dissuade farmers from burning [waste] by giving them incentives,” Rangsrit Kanjanavanit, a lecturer and cardiologist at the Faculty of Medicine at Chiang Mai University, told the Bangkok Post at the time.
But as April turned to May, some complained that officials still had not snapped into action. “Provincial and district officials appear to be preoccupied with the task of deciding a date when residents can resume the burning of household rubbish in their gardens. The dates have changed at least three times in the last week when common sense would have dictated the province should put the lid on wholesale burning whatever the reason,” one TTR Weekly contributor wrote Tuesday.
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Worse than Beijing.......
Did they forget to rake their forests too?
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