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Pollution.
After a few days in Melbourne I noticed on the flight back that there was severe air pollution extending from Victoria all the way across Bass Strait to Tasmania, a distance of over 200KM. The air could best be described as "smoggy" with a typical dirty brown tinge, similar to the pollution that hovers over our major cities and extended almost to our cruising altitude (over 20,000 ft). After seeing Al Gore on Andrew Denton's Enough Rope, I couldn't help but think that what we're seeing now is the beginning of the end, in Al Gore's words we have around 10 years to act, after that it may just be too late. I doubt that our governments and big business have the will to act and from what I saw I can't help but think that we are in for some very troublesome times.
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