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Going green 9.26.08

August 20th 2014
Green trivia
We all know about the classic Dr. Seuss story of the Lorax, don’t we? It’s the one where the fuzzy little PR guy who speaks for the trees takes on a corporate mogul type to stop pollution and clear-cutting. In the original version, at the point in the story where the Lorax sends the Humming Fish to find a less polluted lake to inhabit, one of the fish says: "I hear it's just as bad up in Lake Erie."

Apparently, Seuss decided to drop the controversial line. Who caused him to change his immortal words? If you guessed a high-powered head of industry, perhaps a manufacturing company that's polluting one of the nation's Great Lakes, you would be wrong. Actually, it was a letter from two members of the Ohio Sea Grant Project that changed Seuss' mind after alerting him of the cleanup efforts.


You can still hear the line in the originally televised cartoon, which aired on CBS in 1972. That’s a 36-year old prophecy!

From Cruise Planners Home Office News, September 26, 2008

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