[pf] A rubbish dump and a barrier against other people.

· My excerpts from end-of-March environmental news:
http://davd.tripod.com/APRR-010330.html#03-22-01
  has:

The most infamous landfill in the United States is closing today after 50
years of accepting a growing amount of New York City's garbage. Fresh Kills
on Staten Island, one of New York's five boroughs, .... was once a natural
area of meadows, marshlands and wetlands, named by the early Dutch settlers
Fresh Kills, which means fresh streams. Still surrounded by some of the
original ecosystem, the landfill now contains four enormous mountains of
refuse. Fresh Kills and the Great Wall of China are the only two human
constructions visible from outer space. Fresh Kills is the last of the
landfills in New York City and the last unlined municipal solid waste
landfill in New York State. 

· I know others have commented on this (I think I may have heard it the
first time it was said), but: 

· What does it say about our "civilization", when the only evidences of
people seen as the planet is approached, are
(1) a barrier to the movement of one bunch of people into another bunch's
area, and:
(2) a huge rubbish dump ?

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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