Despairful
August 27, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Did you read the front-page story in the Times yesterday about the pollution in China? Yeah, me neither. I couldn’t bear it. I read the hed and decks and picture captions, and then squinted here and there at a paragraph or two. But it’s really too awful a story to swallow all at once. Or maybe even ever.
Yesterday was chore day, cleaning and shopping, and all day I banged around angrily as I went about my business. All the little crap I do--the endless recycling and the cold-water wash and dragging the reusable canvas bags to the grocery store and shelling out extra money for ugly brown recycled napkins--it’s all bullshit. Every single human in the United States could do likewise (and certainly they don’t) and it wouldn’t matter a drop next to what’s going on in China.
It’s enough to make you chew the paint off your toxic Thomas.
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