. . . as to exactly WHY there are so many pedestrian deaths "Down Under," when Australia is essentially one big vast empty space dotted by just a few rocky hills and Olympic staging areas. AN EXERCISE IN DISCIPLINE: PEEL goes a long way toward solving this riddle. It turns out that when kids toss biodegradable material such as nut shells and fruit peels out the windows of their moving vehicles, parents immediately bring the family caravan to a screeching halt and force the offending youngster to retrieve every speck which they've tried to discard. Why? Because the Australian Film Industry is that islet's leading employer, and they've cornered the world market on "badlands," "trash planets," "barren deserts," and "dead zone" MAD MAX-like filming locations. IF every Aussie kid threw an ounce of biological fodder into this forbiddingly sterile environment, Down Under might turn into a slightly lusher "fixer-upper" sort of an abode, local movie producers fear. (Heaven forbid that they lose some of their business to Yemen or Utah!) Also, PEEL shows that ladies "paying their water bill" in the middle of highways might contribute to this burgeoning pedestrian death toll.
Review of An Exercise in Discipline: Peel
