the pollution obsession continues

[For the last couple of days, the weather report has promised that it'll be ten degrees (5 C) cooler tomorrow, but as many of you know, tomorrow is always a day away. Miss Molly is hanging in there, but she's getting a little weird.]

Today I learned that:

• Hong Kong is so polluted that you can't see all the way across the city. It's apparently difficult to get foreigners to come work there on account of the air quality, and it makes the tourists sick, so ew.
• The Air Force base in Tucson wants its own power plant. They're looking into burning trash to generate power, and they want to do it southwest of Irvington and Harrison, which if you've been following along here, is just to the left of the proposed housing that's going to be built on Fantasy Island. Can't you just hear the real estate agents? "We've got trails on this side, and on this other side, you have the base, which is the last gross polluter in the valley, being all environmentally conscious!"
• The drought is so bad in part of Australia that the town of Toowoomba in Queensland is thinking about filtering the heck out of its sewage and putting it back into the reservoir. In theory it should work, but there's a quote in there about not being too interested in being a guinea pig, and I gotta say, I'm not enjoying being a guinea pig much myself. I keep learning things, and it's interesting, but all in all, I'd rather not involuntarily test other people's laundry chemicals and such.

Last but not least, we have the quote of the day from this article about people fighting over Katrina pets:

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