Re: [marxmail] The government is looking the other way while Britain's rivers die before our eyes | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

[johnny hazard via groups.io]

 Pay wall? I have always opened the Guardian free before. 

    On Monday, August 17, 2020, 6:53:43 AM CDT, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> 
wrote:
 
   You can judge the state of a nation by the state of its rivers. Pollution is 
the physical expression of corruption. So what should we conclude about a 
country whose rivers are systematically exploited, dumped on and bled dry? 

 
 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/12/government-britains-rivers-uk-waterways-farming-water-companies
 
In chapter one of John Bellamy Foster's "The Return of Nature", you can read E. 
Ray Lankester's similar complaint from about 150 years ago:
 
At its foulest, “the Thames mud was blood-red (really ‘blood-red,’ since the 
colour was due to the same blood-crystals which colour our own blood) with the 
swarms of a delicate little worms like the earth-worm, which has an exceptional 
power of living in foul water and nourishing itself upon putrid mud.”


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