Human impact on the environment is often dire: Global warming, toxic chemicals poured or leached into the groundwater, chlorofluorocarbon-induced ozone holes, deforestation, strip mining, but there are the smaller ones, with a sweet smell and less poisonous effect, such as the effect on Puget Sound of holiday baked goods.
Yes, we are what we eat, and so, too, is the environment in which what we eat eventually is deposited.
And, then, on that other side of the good neighborly fence, there is this, an example of Arab-Israeli cooperation.
"Jordan king complains of Israeli odors
Mon Jan 1, 5:19 PM ET
JERUSALEM -
Israel says it's doing what it can to eliminate a royal stink that's developed along its border with Jordan. That's after Jordanian King Abdullah II complained of a less than princely odor wafting from the Israeli side of the countries' shared southern border, Israel's environment minister said Monday.
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Gideon Ezra told Israel Radio that Jordanian officials last week asked that the stench from a livestock quarantine facility in Eilat be neutralized after it drifted across the border frontier toward Abdullah's palace in Aqaba."
