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MrRogers
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 Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: Slash and Burn and Pollution |
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Well, here is an article today which includes a mention of slash and burn agriculture.
The constant pollution from burning that goes on here and which hangs in the air along with what blows over from China is the worst I've seen anywhere. So unhealthy for everyone.
Korea needs to ban these outdated practices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/world/14cloud.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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| The byproduct of automobiles, slash-and-burn agriculture, cooking on dung or wood fires and coal-fired power plants, these plumes rise over southern Africa, the Amazon basin and North America. But they are most pronounced in Asia, where so-called atmospheric brown clouds are dramatically reducing sunlight in many Chinese cities and leading to decreased crop yields in swaths of rural India, say a team of more than a dozen scientists who have been studying the problem since 2002. |
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sargx
Joined: 29 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I concur, let's ban shifting cultivation and allow those 250 million to starve to death, they're not as important as our tree-hugging hippies. |
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Oreovictim
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I was just reading about those brown clouds a few minutes ago. Yeah, the pollution here is really worrying me. I'm wondering how many years of my life are getting shaved off. Someone on here once said that Bundang's air quality isn't all that it's cracked up to be. I agree. Perhaps next year, I'll move back to Cheongju or maybe that Jeonju place. Sure, the air pollution in all of Korea sucks, but making a switch back to one of those hick towns would do my lungs a favor, I'm sure. |
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crosbystillsstash
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| You guys don't understand Korean cultural traditions. |
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Typhoon
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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 That's my favorite!!! |
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blade
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Oreovictim wrote: |
| Sure, the air pollution in all of Korea sucks, but making a switch back to one of those hick towns would do my lungs a favor, I'm sure. |
I don't know about that as I live in a hick town and on my way to work this morning I passed not less than four bonfires burning mainly plastic garbage. In fact barely a day passes when I don't smell burnt plastic in the air. |
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MrRogers
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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sargyx:
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| I concur, let's ban shifting cultivation and allow those 250 million to starve to death, they're not as important as our tree-hugging hippies. |
Are you serious? |
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MrRogers
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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blade:
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Oreovictim wrote:
Sure, the air pollution in all of Korea sucks, but making a switch back to one of those hick towns would do my lungs a favor, I'm sure. |
I don't know about that as I live in a hick town and on my way to work this morning I passed not less than four bonfires burning mainly plastic garbage. In fact barely a day passes when I don't smell burnt plastic in the air. |
Yes - I am in what is supposed be healthy by Korean standards - in the mountain/village southern area - they like to say how much better the air is here. 
Well, as blade said, there is constant burning of garbage, plastic - right into one's window, and burning of fields - everywhere in Korea - and you can see the haze of pollution hanging in the mountains/hills compounded by that from China. It doesn't matter where one goes, Korea is full of Chinese pollution (plus their own ignorant "traditions"). |
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