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Date Posted: 18:53:47 08/10/03 Sun
Author: Mt. Healthy Mountaineer
Subject: respect for the land?
In reply to: mvd 's message, "Re: None" on 10:07:59 08/10/03 Sun

Have you ever been to the Eastern seaboard of the US?

Far, far dirtier. Philadelphia was the dirtiest city I've ever seen in America.

Latin America is notorious for having pollution problems that make any in the US seem to be a joke in comparison. Mexico city was very dirty (trash overflowing into the streets, rotten food piled up in doorways) in parts and in other parts the streets were so clean that you could eat off of them (and the homeless families did).

The air pollution in Mexico City is so bad that some embassies consider it hazardous duty and their ambassadors are discouraged from bringing their families. The US considered building a glass dome over their embassy. Los Angeles at its worst is Mexico City's air at its best.

Of course, we could have Germany's respect for the land and let air pollution wipe out the Black Forest.

Or we could have North Africa's respect for the land and abuse the Sahara's borders so that the desert grows at the rate of miles per year.

Or perhaps you'd like Russia's abuse of the Steppe farmland that created wasteland of lost topsoil, not to mention the Nuclear and chemical dumps that litter the landscape (and Chernobyl).

Brazil? Cut down millions of acres of rainforest and don't replace them.

You want an Asian perspective - how about Indonesia? They burn the rain forests at such a high rate that airplanes can't see where they are going and two years ago a jetliner slammed into a mountain that was obscured by smoke.

Japan fishes the sea at such a rate that it can only be compared to strip mining.

France has made no effort to clean up the poison gas fields of World War I (!) - there are still areas where you are not allowed to dig because the mustard gas will come out of the ground and kill you.

The Mediterranean is so nastily polluted that you can't swim in Barcelona, Spain half of the summer.

I've mentioned every continent except for Australia and Antarctica. I rather think that we are not so unique here in Indiana - you just happen to see our Twinkie wrappers and smell the meat packing plant every day and are especially sensitive to them.

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Replies:

Here we go again -- mvd, 10:12:44 08/11/03 Mon
- Re: Here we go again -- Mt. Healthy Mountaineer, 23:37:42 08/15/03 Fri
- MVD's question to me: What has caused such disrespect for the land? Anywhere and everywhere? -- Mt. Healthy Mountaineer, 23:47:53 08/15/03 Fri
Some info on Indiana's environment -- mvd, 12:46:09 08/11/03 Mon
- Source? -- Donald, 11:45:06 08/12/03 Tue
  - Sources... to the best of my memory -- mvd, 12:06:01 08/12/03 Tue
- U.S. as worst polluter in the world -- Mt. healthy Mountaineer, 23:15:20 08/15/03 Fri