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[oilyhands.livejournal.com]

[Pollution is sitting on the ground next to a printer that's putting out page after page. It's hooked up to his laptop, which he's poking at and has power because he says it does.]

Everyone tries so hard to reverse progress. [taptaptap at the keyboard] Clean coal really was a brilliant idea, I'll have to thank Sable next time I see him. Why the name of a thing makes such a difference, I'll never understand.

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[silenteden.livejournal.com]

[Curious, Kuhn tries to get a glimpse at the pages coming out of the printer. He's... not being very discrete about it, either.]

[oilyhands.livejournal.com]

[Pollution doesn't even look up. He doesn't care who sees — the idea is to use the paper, after all.

In what is becoming a very disorganized spread of papers, you can see this (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/26/toilet-roll-america), this (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5524748.ece), and this (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4276798.ece), along with several other news articles on environmental issues.]

[silenteden.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, his curiosity gets the better of him.]

Huh. What's with all the articles?

[oilyhands.livejournal.com]

[He smiles at Kuhn, and leaves off poking at the laptop. The printer's still going, though.]

Just checking up on a few things.

[silenteden.livejournal.com]

[He grabs up one of the papers at random and lets out a low whistle at the headline.]

Ooh, this one's especially nasty. Heh. Crazy Europeans...

[oilyhands.livejournal.com]

Most of them are. I prefer the ones about America, I think.

[silenteden.livejournal.com]

Guess no one's really innocent, huh? [He shakes his head.]

So, what exactly are you checking up on?

[oilyhands.livejournal.com]

I should hope not.

The general state of things, as people see it. [He doesn't need a paper to tell him the actual state of things.]

[silenteden.livejournal.com]

Ah. Guess that makes sense. I thought maybe you had to turn this in somewhere, or something.

[oilyhands.livejournal.com]

[a short laugh]

No, not at all. This is waste for waste's sake. [Which he sounds pretty pleased about]