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Would you eat this?

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Cell phone picture of a DC snowpile, taken 3 or 4 days after snowpocalypse.

Would you take a bite out of the snow pile pictured at right?

Of course you wouldn’t; that’s disgusting. Seriously, gross. You’ve done it, though. You do it all the time.

The pollution that makes snow so ugly after a few days on the street doesn’t magically appear whenever it snows. It’s always there, produced by our litany of motorized vehicles. It floats around the air we breathe for a while before settling on the ground, or in the water. Every time you walk behind a truck or big SUV and get a whiff of exhaust, you’re essentially taking a big bite out of a delicious soot-flavored snowcone.

But that’s just the cost of doing business in a modern civilization… right?

March 1st, 2010 | Permalink
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