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Date Posted: 11:30:12 08/12/03 Tue
Author: Adilbrand
Subject: Maybe this will help.
In reply to: mvd 's message, "This does not help, unfortunately" on 09:14:17 08/12/03 Tue

Part of the problem with Indiana is our economics. Indiana is still heavily industrialized, with a lot of emphasis on factories. Other states have made the transition toward service industries. Indiana is in the midst of that transition.

Factories tend to be heavy pollution-sources. Factories also require a large, uneducated work force. This work force tends to be composed of smokers. Smokers have a habit of throwing cigarettes wherever (it kills me to see an ash-can surrounded by cigarette butts crushed on the pavement next to the ash-can; I get irritated when I cannot walk anywhere in Indiana without seeing a damn cigarette butt on the ground). (Perhaps this habit translates to throwing any trash out.) I think the uneducated tend to not understand the impact they and their trash have on the environment.

I also have to wonder how much places like Gary, IN skew the statistics for Indiana as a whole.

Anyway, I think Indiana's problem is an over-reliance on industry, and a reliance on uneducated workers. If we could farm out more industry to other countries and pollute them, then we might be better off.

That is my solution - send more factories out of the states. Force the uneducated work force to either leave Indiana or get an education.

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Hmmm -- mvd, 12:07:35 08/12/03 Tue
- Perhaps mandatory recycling, with public whippings for those who don't? -- theefool, 12:49:42 08/12/03 Tue
  - Now you're talking! (NT) -- mvd, 09:02:19 08/13/03 Wed