I can’t help but wonder if those silly masks the US Cycling Team donned the other day to protect them from China’s bad air were manufactured in one of the plants contributing to the pollution problem there. Wouldn’t it just figure. I imagine many Americans taking in the Olympics will have an unkind word or two to say about the air quality. Never mind much of what they are wearing and using on a day to day basis played a role. We can bellyache as a nation all we want about the jobs we’ve lost in manufacturing to China. That is undeniable. What we seem to forget is the degree of pollution that followed those jobs. I doubt too many of us are heartbroken our skies are reasonably clear.
