These two Editor’s Choice pictures at Reuters are worth more than a thousand words:
- Trash along Lagos beach. Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria, the eighth most populous country in the world.
- Red polluted water in China. The Jianhe River in Luoyang in Henan province of China is bright red from chemical waste. I wonder if this is what the Nile looked like in Moses’ time.
We in the United States should not think we are any better with our trash mountains outside of each large city and a history of our own chemical river issues as seen in this Cuyahoga River Burning in Cleveland.