Thursday, August 30, 2007

Environment.

The environmental situation in India is absolutely alarming. I do not understand how people can live like this. From the train, I saw some of the most bizarre and disturbing things I've ever seen. I won't tell you all of them but imagine a family of pigs rooting around a stinking garbage dump on the banks of a stagnant, green, fuzzy cesspool. Nearby an elephant, of all things, is scratching itself on a brick wall. A couple of women are fetching water in buckets from the cesspool and another few people are relieving themselves a few few feet away.

Delhi is seriously polluted. I studied these things and nothing I read ever prepared me for this kind of squalor.

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