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Learning from the Fires
Originally posted on October 28, 2007Thanks to weather that’s more or less perfect year-round, not to mention the best looking waiters in the world, Southern California is a place where many people want to live. Probably too many. Even with the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage industry and foreclosures on the rise, LA and San Diego County still have some of the highest median home prices in the United States, including $1 million Hollywood bungalows that would command a solid $175,000 anywhere else. Despite the onerous specter of earthquakes, mudslides, and, as we were reminded last week, wildfires, many citizens of the world dream of settling in sunny California.
Thousands of those folks lost their homes in the recent fires. Billions of dollars in damage was done. And the unhealthy ramifications of so much particle pollution in the air, rivaling the amount that we spew into the atmosphere with our snazzy trucks every day, won’t be known for years. Residents of the hardest hit areas described the scene as “hellish” and “an inferno,” recalling imagery found in Dante and the Bible. The flames, largely uncontrollable, consumed almost everything in their path, including the dreams and aspirations of good folks who, understandably, feel victimized by forces…
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Mourning the Real Victims of the Bangladesh Garment Factory DisastersNews comes from Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, that a disastrous fire swept through a garment factory there, killing eight people. A factory fire in November killed more than 100.
The garment industry in Bangladesh is euphemistically called “loosely regulated,” so, regrettably, these things (fires and so forth) tend to happen with alarming regularity. An entire building collapsed there not long ago, killing more than 1,000. It’s a delicate balance, isn’t it? Between protecting human life and encouraging business…
Bottled Water is Amazing!Were you aware that bottled water is “bad for the environment,” “bad for public water sources,” and “bad for your wallet”?
Neither were we! It’s pretty funny to think of something so obviously good – so amazing, when you think about it – as inherently evil, or something. Bottled water is, like, one of the greatest innovations of the last thirty years. Before bottled water was introduced in the marketplace, people had to drink out of taps, or “water fountains.”…
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