The unfortunate reality at the Olympic Games in the 21st century should shine a glaring light on greedy corporate sponsors. In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, smog-producing factories had to shut down for weeks so runners, bicyclists and other outdoor events had healthier settings.

You think the smell at Santa Rita Park is bad? Just buy airline tickets, get overpriced hotel rooms, hold your nose and pay big money for seats at the Olympic water sports venue in Rio de Janeiro this summer.

The world can’t blame all our problems on global warming because there is big-time stupidity on where the Olympic Games are held, and millionaire/billionaire athletes (no longer called “amateur” as they once were) will not morally protest about unhealthy conditions the “little people” live in when they go back home to their mansions.

Oh yes, “the little (poor) people in Rio” are being poisoned by plumes of Agent Orange, instead of safer methods available, so the Zika bugs won’t infect the well-healed.

Can’t all of us on Earth be better human beings, for heaven’s sake?

Sally Florence

Durango