Old solutions no answer to dust menace
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published : 25 Jan 2021 at 04:30
17 The polluted morning skyline, as seen from Phra Pok Klao Bridge over the Chao Phraya River in Klong San district. Levels of the health-hazardous PM2.5 microdust have exceeded safe limits in parts of the capital and its vicinity recently. Apichart Jinakul
When pressured by newshounds last week about another round of PM2.5 dust that has blanketed the capital city and some other provinces for several days in a row, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon answered, The government has tackled it all along. Really?
If he believes in what he said, the DPM should ask himself why we still have to battle this man-made pollution that has become an annual pest for so many years? And after many years, government agencies still deal with the problem as if it was their first time, as if they were inexperienced. Now I fear that this once-a-year problem will be permanent.