Word: littering
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...assembly lines of Detroit are still. In Los Angeles, a few gaunt survivors of a plague desperately till freeway center strips, backyards and outlying fields, hoping to raise a subsistence crop. London's offices are dark, its docks deserted. In the farm lands of the Ukraine, abandoned tractors litter the fields: there is no fuel for them. The waters of the Rhine, Nile and Yellow rivers reek with pollutants...
...notion that you are what you eat becomes expanded, in Wiley's work, to the idea that you are what you happen to have around, and Wiley has produced a whole iconography from the litter in his backyard. Thank You Hide...
...pages are dotted with sarplers, live-lodes, oxters, and muster-develers. 'Zooks if anybody knows what they mean; 'zounds if they aren't fun anyway. So is her version of Richard. She sees him as a 15th century Bobby Kennedy, the runt of a glittering litter who as a youth is devoted to his glamorous older brother, King Edward IV, and as Edward's successor displays rare qualities of social conscience...
...Ministry of Agriculture is never alarmed -but we are working very hard to find an alternative to warfarin," says a British government official. Even so, the rats have a final defense that has made a fool of man since the combat began. The average female produces up to twelve litters a year, and in each litter are ten ravenous young rats...
...trouble, Commoner says, is that these products also put harsh new stresses on the environment. For one thing, their manufacture demands huge inputs of energy; the production of that energy causes pollution by itself. For another, when the new materials are discarded, they become litter that nature is unable to decompose. Moreover, many postwar products actually generate more pollution than their predecessors. Detroit's high-powered cars are far more polluting than prewar models. Even worse, pollutants can be synergistic. "If the levels of sulfur dioxide and a carcinogen [cancer producing substance] in polluted air are both doubled," Commoner...