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trønderen17-Jan-23 11:24
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Try the air in London - every time I pass through it (about an hour in total) every time I blow my nose for a week after it comes out full of black muck.
Aren't you old enough to remember the London smog in the days when houses were heated by coal burning?

I never saw it myself; as a kid I visited London on summer vacations only. Smog was a winter phenomenon. Sometimes, we read newspaper reports about smog so dense that traffic had to stop: The driver couldn't see the car in front of them. Compared to that, London has air as fresh as the countryside. I have visited London in winter time after coal burning was banned, and never thought of the air as any worse than in other metropolitan areas.

It all depends on your expectations, of course. Lately, I have mentioned the books of Bill Bryson a couple of times, "A walk in the wood" is as funny as the others. When reading it first time, I stalled: They are carrying a filter kit, to filter the creek water before drinking it. What's that? This is out in nature, with natural drinking water. Filtering it?? Here in Norway, I would never ever think of filtering creek water. I expect it to be pure and clean and healthy. Maybe Appalachian water is - after all, it is drinkable after a simple filtering - compared to the water in other parts of the U.S. Reminds me of Tom Lehrer: Pollution (YouTube) [^] (Also note that the Lerher song is 60+ years old Smile | :) )
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