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Mark T. Seiler's avatar

You don't have to go from Durango to Hanoi to see this. Compare the roadsides in Amish country in Ohio with those in North Carolina. Not a speck of trash where the Amish reside and I pick up at least a tall kitchen trash bag of trash every 5-7 days along a quarter-mile stretch of our dead end road. It's not a "habit" it's a mindset.

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Gracchus's avatar

Wonder whose pocket that environmental money flowed into...

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Dudeman's avatar

Interesting....thank you for the article! So, any idea as to why the environment is treated that way? Was this a learned experience due to the decades of war? Was it always like this? ....sorry for all the questions., but this is a good topic! Might be easier if you sent me a all-expenses plane ticket so I could conduct an in person interview.

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Benjamin Bartee's avatar

This is a problem basically all over the third world. But it's particularly obvious in Vietnam, the reason for which I'm not sure.

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