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Govt ill-prepared to tackle climate woes
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 30/10/2021
» One and a half hour's drive from Bangkok is Bang Ban district of Ayutthaya. Here, most of the rice fields and entire villages have been under water for the past couple of months.
Haze crisis a symptom of state of failures
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 25/01/2020
» The current air pollution crisis is just one of many symptoms of a system going haywire. The pollution crisis has been an annual occurrence for the past several years. Every dry season, we brace ourselves for the onslaught of toxic smog caused by exhaust fumes, construction dust, forest fires, and fires deliberately set on pre- or post-harvest fields.
Bushfires augur irreparable catastrophe
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/01/2020
» Except for the US-Iran conflict, no other current news is arguably more riveting than the bushfires that have been ravaging Australia since September last year.
Lethargic response to unpredictable weather
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 04/08/2018
» This year's season of deluges, mudslides and other weather-related disasters arrived innocently enough with 12 boys and their assistant football coach taking what they thought was to be a relaxing stroll in a cave after training.
The climate truth we can no longer ignore
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 26/08/2017
» Not so long ago, the prospect of fundamental climate change appeared to be a remote possibility.
Rotten system gives root to nation's denuded forests
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 20/05/2016
» Reforestation is in vogue again.You know this when celebrities start emerging from their studios to urge the public to help restore our fast disappearing forest land.
Govt must act fast to stem scourge of climate change
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 20/11/2015
» Netizens were up in arms earlier this week when news surfaced that the government was on the verge of spending 20 million baht to send 81 officials to the upcoming global climate change conference in Paris. Insider information exposed the budget request to dispatch the throng of officials to the event to an outraged public.
Wake up: There is no future for coal
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 14/08/2015
» Outside of Thailand, the signs are everywhere that nations are taking steps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the single most important factor -- for the time being at least -- to have caused numerous natural disasters in the world.
Frustration brews as life becomes harder for rural folk
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/09/2015
» The rejection of the draft constitution has caused a major brouhaha among political pundits, academics, and journalists. But for the normal folk outside the capital, it is just another episode of lakhon nam nao, a brainless soap opera.
Plodprasop must slow the flood scheme flow
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 24/05/2013
» I admit I'm totally baffled by Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi's need for speed in getting the 350-billion-baht water management master plan off the ground.