Pollution: ‘Doc, should I go?’
26th March 2013
FROM Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong, one looks out across an amazingly busy harbour. Boats large and small, modern and ancient plough back and forth. Container ships lumber slowly; ferries bustle purposely; and massive cruise ships — a delight for gastrointestinal and respiratory pathogens — set out optimistically. The odd junk chugs along between the larger ships; and in February, as I gazed out across the harbour, a three-masted sailing ship slid gracefully past. What a dynamic scene!
