My friend is writing a really good sci fi.
Basically it is set in 10,066 and humans moved to space. They live on lots of different habitable planets with lots of countries. Anyway, this guy David comes from Purga a “garbage world” not because it’s a bad place to live (though it most certainly is) but because it was colonized for its special geography, seismic pits, huge lava or magma pits that they throw garbage from around the worlds. I’m not sure why they don’t just chuck it into space. The author didn’t make it very clear. Maybe they were worried they would “pollute” the vacuum of space so instead paid the Purgans to pollute their own environment so bad from the fumes of the stuff they burned that they have to wear gas masks outside so they don’t die from the toxic air.
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