# Follow up: I need help *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 12 Mar 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Gage Kerrigan *12 Mar 2002, 02:03* Ummmm, I fully realize that I'm being impertinent and impatiant, but... Does anyone have evidence of Earth's pollution other than the poisoning of the water supply? Does anyone have information about the history of Urthian society (and how it got where it was before New Sun)? thnx «Lord ESN» ===== G Willickers aka Gage Kerrigan --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *12 Mar 2002, 14:18 · follows Gage Kerrigan* > G Willickers wrote: > Does anyone have evidence of Earth's pollution > other than the poisoning of the water supply? Industrial pollution doesn't seem to play a large part in the Commonwealth. The poisoning of the water seems more a result of the city's large population than any residue of previous ages. (Pollution plays a more significant role in M. John Harrison's far future, but not "dying sun" series: Virconium. THE PASTEL CITY is one novel. IIRC, there are deserts of metallic rust, pools of corrosive agents, etc. Which, in turn, reminds me of Miyazaki's manga/anime film "Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind," which is very much about pollution lingering into the far future, changing society and the landscape.) =mantis= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley Now with UPDATES! http://www.siriusfiction.com/ ---