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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (258686)11/6/2005 11:45:15 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (2) of 1572208
 
I just wanted to point out that just possibly, North Korea didn't want to burn coal for the same reasons WE don't want to burn coal. The "black air" crack refers back to London in the 1800's, when ALL they burned was coal. The sky was black.

" John Ruskin, in the 1860s, referred to it as "That great foul city of London, -- rattling, growling, smoking, stinking -- ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore. . . ." Earlier, Shelley had written "Hell is a city much like London -- A Populous and smoky city" (the famous nineteenth-century London fogs were the result of the air pollution brought about by the burning of coal on an enormous scale)."
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