Sometimes the future sucks

Today I went to the beach with some friends and had a really fun time playing on boogie boards and splashing in the waves. The photos I took with my digital camera are the kind that make you nostalgic as soon as you see them. We look so cute and summery and fun.



We were kind of joking about the beach being polluted (it is in Los Angeles after all, and you can see some smokestacks in the distance), so tonight I looked it up in NRDC's Testing the Waters report and Surfrider's State of the Beach report. Surfrider told me there was a pollution warning on this beach yesterday because of high bacteria levels. NRDC told me the beach was closed several times last year, for bacteria and sewage reasons. YUCK.



I hate everyone out there who is making my beach dirty. I guess it's all of us together, using electricity and sewage lines and everything, so maybe we all suck. With all the futuristic technology in the world, you'd think someone would come up with a way to keep the beaches clean.