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the unnatural — that too is natural

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Beautiful Messes

Good Magazine has Eric Smillie’s excellent roundup of five exquisitely trashy spots, all in the United States (except one in the Pacific Ocean). This is the first truly pollution-tourist-friendly article I’ve ever come across. Thanks to Adam Bolt for spotting it.

The list is garbage-focussed, but they all sound like excellent destinations, especially the giant trash pile floating in the Pacific. Smillie deserves special credit for not just rehashing the same lists of polluted places that everyone else has already gotten their teeth into. And he’s even got tips for how to get to each place and where to stay when you get there.

Hear that sound? It’s the zeitgeist sliding in this direction.

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posted by Andrew at 6:47 pm  

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