My eyes are swollen today maybe due to that land waste tip fire in Taoyuen and all the paper money burning. Anyone else feeling that; these last few days in New Taipei City ?
The air has been filthy and the bonfire effect in Datong District from the firecrackers and other superstitious shite has been frankly disgusting.
Location: Taipei City basin
Guy
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Yesterday after a long bike ride, I felt like my skin and hair were full of dust. And it probably was.
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The eyes are ok now just a little bit of a hacking cough. Definitely the air. A country can have all the electric scooters it wants but when the tradition of burning paper representations of cars and money continues , it still remains dirty. I think people just follow culture without thinking about it. Do those people burning all that paper ever consider that this affects others, and their own health. I doubt it.
Although hurting their own health is up to them, but why do others have to suffer for their traditions. I would defnitely not advise anyone with asthma to live here.
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Itâs been disappointing to see how little progress thatâs been made on these issues over the past while. I feel lately weâre going backwards . . .
Guy
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I think it is not a culture that worries much about other people. This is why all of the roundabouts needs to have lights installed..
It is, however very much a culture of burning, not just the fossil fuel fuels in the vehicles, but also fossil fuel fuels for electricity production, and also the constant deadfall which is a result of the ample rain and sunshine and warmth in Taiwan. Things are always growing and so when the rains stop around ghost month, the burning season starts and people will just keep burning until the monsoons come back.
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Donât forget the burning of plastic waste. Agriculture burn piles and fishermanâs nylon nets melted and buried in the sand.
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Boy I parsed that the wrong way first time through. Ouch.
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Because there is almost zero effort to improve. There are many âcleanerâ alternatives to most of their dirty practices, especially when concerning their industrial/manufacturing processes. Itâs unbelievable some of the shit that gets passed off as âOKâ or âgood enoughâ when it comes to protecting the bottom line. In most developed counties many of these practices/substances are outright banned.
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Kaohsiung wasnât the airpocalypse I was led to expect, so presumably there has been some improvementâŚ
Not fast/sufficient enough when you have three kids with asthma! Since the kiddos have been breathing clean Appalachian air for the past year, this past weekend we got to throw away a gallon-sized bag of various asthma/bronchitis meds/inhalers that we brought with us from Taiwan. Their asthma has completely disappeared since leaving Taiwan.
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Nuff said