Orts #939
some places plastic has turned up, via Axios:
A marine biologist found 373,000 toothbrushes and 975,000 shoes on the beaches of the remote Cocos Keeling Islands, in the Indian Ocean.
Rescuers found more than 17 pounds of plastic, including 80 shopping bags, in a dead whale's stomach.
Bottled water: A study of 259 bottles from nine countries found 93% showed microplastic contamination.
Human excrement: Researchers tested stool samples from across Europe and found plastic particles in every single one.
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Words can be polluted even more dramatically and drastically than rivers and land and sea. Their misuse is our undoing.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
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The test of sympathy in a man is whether he can be emotionally moved by statistics.
-- this is widely attributed to G.B.Shaw, but it seems to go back to Bertrand Russell in 1926 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/20/moved-by-stats/
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a cautionary parable
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