Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:18:46 -0800
From: Michael Andre-Driussi 
Subject: Re: (urth) Follow up: I need help

G Willickers wrote:
>    Does anyone have evidence of Earth's pollution
>other than the poisoning of the water supply?

Industrial pollution doesn't seem to play a large part in the Commonwealth.
The  poisoning of the water seems more a result of the city's large
population than any residue of previous ages.

(Pollution plays a more significant role in M. John Harrison's far future,
but not "dying sun" series: Virconium. THE PASTEL CITY is one novel.  IIRC,
there are deserts of metallic rust, pools of corrosive agents, etc.  Which,
in turn, reminds me of Miyazaki's manga/anime film "Nausicaa: Valley of the
Wind," which is very much about pollution lingering into the far future,
changing society and the landscape.)

=mantis=


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