BANGKOK: Trudging along Bangkok's hot and dusty streets, green candidates struggle to canvass support ahead of Thailand's election, with record-breaking pollution failing to spur anything more than politic
, with smoke from forest fires and farmers burning crop stubble suffocating northern Chiang Mai and cloaking the capital with hazardous smog.
But alongside the circus of parties vying to outbid each other with populist welfare policies, environmental issues have been a sideshow. She cautiously welcomed politicians finally talking about the issue, but characterised many of their election promises as"loosey-goosey" in detail.A view of Chiang Mai city amid air pollution, Thailand, Apr 10, 2023.
Hampering substantive change is Thailand's system of political patronage, in which wealthy clans leverage links to further their business interests, said Danny Marks, assistant professor of environmental politics and policy at Dublin City University.
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