Pollution

Posted on by Reena Saxena

My Facebook post is cryptic – “The air feels heavy as if weighed down by conspiracy.” Many people comment saying it is the smog outside.

I wonder if they failed to read the metaphor, or if they are in collusion with the conspirators.

I feel unsafe and lonely in the prevailing scenario. One never knows when one will be attacked for holding a view.

suffocated by
breathing in polluted air
honesty rebels

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16 thoughts on “Pollution”

    1. It is not needed, unless you are selling something through FB ads. I’ve an author page and a group – Financial Planning & Analysis, which keeps me involved. But no personal sharing 🙂

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  3. At least here in the far West, a large number of drivers of superfluously huge and over-powered thus gas-guzzling vehicles consider their machines to be a basic human right. It terrifies them to even contemplate a world in which they cannot readily fuel that right. And comparatively quiet electric cars are no substitute.

    It’s no longer prudent to have so much of society, especially our primary modes of transportation, reliant on traditional sources of energy.

    But industry and fossil-fuel friendly government can tell when a very large portion of the populace is too overworked, worried and even angry about food and housing unaffordability for themselves or their family — all while on insufficient income — to criticize the industry [etcetera] for whatever environmental damage their policies cause/allow, particularly when not immediately observable.

    Even as bone-dry-vegetation regions uncontrollably burn, mass addiction to fossil fuel products undoubtedly helps keep the average consumer quiet about the planet’s greatest polluter, lest they feel and/or be publicly deemed hypocritical. It must be convenient for the industry.

    But the world — very much including Western nations — desperately needs to behave smarter with vehicular fuel consumption, therefore all need to forgo purchasing the most gratuitously environmentally hazardous of vehicles.

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      1. Meantime, I’ll see parked vehicles idling for many minutes in moderate weather temperatures. There’ll also be the odd choking-thick-exhaust-spewing vanity vehicle, a metallic beast with the signature superfluously very large body and wheels that don’t at all appear used for work or family transport.

        They’re the same gratuitously huge monsters that when parked roadside hazardously block the view of short-car operators turning or crossing through stop-signed intersections. They appear as though they might get about 25 gallons to the mile.

        Inside each is the operator, typically staring down into their lap, probably their smartphones. They may be some of the people posting protestations onto various social media platforms about a gas tax/price increase, however comparatively small.

        The carbon tax — though it’s more than recouped via government rebate (except for the high-incomed) — in particular induces much pastime complaining.

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  5. Reena, your haiku encapsulates your theme with such precision… portraying the suffocation of breathing in polluted air as a metaphor for the rebellion of honesty in a complex and potentially hostile environment. Fantastic!

    ❤
    David

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  6. Human nature runs the spectrum of extreme kindness and extreme cruelty. Society presses us into conformity by punishing us when we don’t conform. Facebook is a crazy extreme and plastic environment and we all know how toxic plastic is.

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