[tacticalogic]

In particular, this: "pornography poisons the human heart, imagination and soul just as those steel mills once poisoned our air and water, only worse" is right on target. What's interesting is that Lake Erie was cleaned up by Zebra Mussels. Seriously. I'm sure there's a message in there somehow ...

If it was cleaned up by some mussels, it appears the message is that the problem was not nearly as apocalyptic as it was made out to be.

[ArrogantBustard]

1) Ecofreaks exaggerate almost everything.

2) Lake Erie was very badly polluted, and dredging is still problematic. Buried layers of silt from the "pollution years" are still contain the various poisons that were a problem then. Lake Erie is far from unique in this regard.

3) See above ... the zebra mussels are a mixed blessing, and I would recommend against introducing them as a pollution control measure. They arrived in the Great Lakes by accident.

I suppose the lesson is to think through your pollution control measures BEFORE implementing them, whether it's physical pollution or moral pollution that you wish to control. Still, it does no good to deny that pollution is pollution.