
Originally Posted by
Fra
Thanks seagypsy
I'll be happy to compare myself with other colleagues or with people who care about our world
It would appear you are in Europe, Italy specifically? I should like to call attention to a fact which I observed many years ago, when I took a trip from America to Europe with my new wife, who had been born in Germany.
It was 1972, May specifically. We arrived in Munich, then drove throughout Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and a part of France. I vividly recall environmental conditions which appalled me. Driving along the Rhine River, mile after mile of majestic shoreline dotted with amazing hillside castles, the waters appeared to have the "quality" equivalent to those of the Chicago River, the area I grew up in. 4 million toilets flush directly into the Chicago River.
The Black Forest. I had heard of it's mystic essence all my life. Driving through the area, I was sorely disappointed, as one could see essentially nothing, so poor was the air quality.
We wanted to see the beaches of Italy, visited briefly in Venice, where great numbers of rats were lying dead on the shore, having been washed up there. One
could swim there, as the area was designated as a beach.
Have such things improved environmentally in Europe, over ensuing years? jocular