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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (21743)	5/18/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: Skipper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

X, I would agree with you that things are better - I also see a lot of effort being made to recycle. But how much pollution is caused even by recycling, and, what worries me the most, how much of an effort is the rest of the world making, and in what areas? For one thing, different countries have different concerns. When I was in Japan, the Japanese I talked to still found it acceptable to hunt whales. That conversation was prompted by a newspaper article I had read that an annual whale hunt had been held, with much of the meat being used for school lunches for children. And then there are the places where economic realities are much harsher, such as the city that was featured in National Geographic, somewhere in Eastern Europe, where everything, and everyone is totally covered in soot from the local industry, all the time, even when they are bathing. Then there is our own country's insistence on not lowering emissions, to the extent other countries were willing to. There are just too many special interests. Still, I think it's good to keep things as clean as we can, given all the exceptions, for "good" reasons, that we and others each make. Skipper