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Beat the Devil
Cockburn, Alexander | April 11, 1994 issue

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An article from the February issue of the "Atlantic Monthly," discussed here two weeks ago, still spews its way through the fax machines of environmentalists thrilled at his portrait of "The Coming Anarchy." One of the photographs accompanying that article shows some seventy men and women in a river doing their laundry, scrubbing clothes on stones set in car tires floating in the lagoon. The picture might just as well have been captioned— Africans show West the environmentally correct way to do the laundry. No bleaches or detergents, no electricity, power lines, sewage treatment plants to remove phosphorus and bleach from the waste water, no security guards to watch the cars carrying the day's take from the laundromat.

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ENVIRONMENTAL protection; LAUNDRY; PICTURES; SEWAGE -- Purification; ENVIRONMENTALISM; ATLANTIC Monthly (Periodical)
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