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August 10, 2006
Real pollution
You can tell the politicians are away, the press is running all the scare stories about health, the environment and anything else they can twist and spin into "bad news". Why "Bad" news? Well, as everyone knows, "Good" news doesn't sell papers, people only buy the paper to see the bad news.
The latest efforts to reduce Western Developed Nations pollution would make me angry if they weren't so damned stupid. Why are we supposed, at least according to Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (Foes of Humanity) - to be worse polluters than all the developing nations with their uncontrolled exhaust emissions, stripping of forests, open cooking fires, destruction of habitats and so on? As anyone who has ever visited Metro-Manilla will know the Pasig River and Laguna de Baye are both open sewers, the stench from the once magnificent Manilla Bay is overpowering if you have the misfortune to encounter an onshore breeze and the air pollution is completely off the scale. The same can be said of Bangkok, Jakarta and a number of other Far Eastern cities I have visited. The air pollution from uncontrolled diesel busses, trucks and other vehicles - there is almost no "public transport" in terms of trains and the busses are a matter of having a death wish - is appalling, the air is brown with the haze over these cities, but no, according to Greenpeace, F(r)iends of the Earth and the Western Press it is you and I who are the enemies of the earth, the great polluters who will destroy the climate. Evidently it is us who are the polluters in the Far East and the destroyers of the rain forests in South America. The people who live there are "victims" of Western greed and exploitation - or so says the great socialist mantra.
What a pity we can't ship these morons out to the countries that really are destroying the world. Who knows, perhaps they might then make an impact - or become martyrs to their cause. At any rate, it would get them out of our faces and out of the press for a few weeks.
Posted by The Gray Monk at August 10, 2006 04:29 PM
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