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In Topic: Smoke, Smog, Dust 2012 Chiang Mai
2012-03-18 20:40:10
orang37, on 2012-03-18 19:42:40, said:
TheScribe, on 2012-03-18 19:30:52, said:
... snip ... my suggestion for a four-part solution:-
1) Forcibly emptying the hill-tribe villages and re-settling the inhabitants to places where they can't do all this damage to Thailand's shared natural resources.
1) Forcibly emptying the hill-tribe villages and re-settling the inhabitants to places where they can't do all this damage to Thailand's shared natural resources.
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Any chance of the Pollution CONTROL Department progressing these solution? Really? You mean, like, umm, in this lifetime? Really?
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No I am not suggesting genocide.
Over the last couple of days it seems that some people have gone into the hills of Doi Sutep/Pui at night and set fire to the now tinder-box dry forests. This is almost certainly the work of the hill-tribe or itinerant people living there. We know why they do this, and we know that it's a crime, and we know that it causes many thousands of people discomfort, sickness and premature death. So its not a small thing.
Preventing all that is what the PCD is supposed to be doing. Just telling the hill folks to not burn does absolutely nothing. Meantime, babies and old folks down in the valleys are still sickening and dying. The hill folks are not going to change their ways until they have to. Getting them to change their ways will need a lot of carrot and stick, but currently I don't see anything being done by the PCD or any other govt. dept. either. But I could be wrong about that.
