Sunday, September 12, 2004

Rivers Run Black

This is something that hasn’t made an appearance in the blogosphere, but should. It seems that much of the Chinese countryside has been converted into one big cancer valley, because of improper environmental management – no air or water pollution controls, no waste management, nothing. So much for unfettered free enterprise improving the lot of the common man. I don’t think we have a good handle on what’s sensible environmental and risk management; we worry about too many risks that are trivial and ignore too many that are significant. But what’s going on in China right now is ridiculous.

DIOXIN 2004

Work is slamming me these days, so I’ve had very little energy for blogging. However, I’ll stick around long enough to say that DIOXIN 2004, the premier conference hangout for persistent halogenated organic pollutant geekiness, is going on now in Berlin. You can download the papers from the website this year. Sweet!