Biggest sources:

• 7.6 Mt from macro plastics breaking down
• 1.3 Mt from paint
• 1.0 Mt from tyres

10-40 Mt released into environment/year, and increasing.

Pearl jam is my favorite band also, and Riot act is probably also my favorite album of theirs.

If you like Pearl jam, I’d recommend my favorite album of all times: Soundgarden’s Superunknown.

Some of my lesser-known, non-grunge favorites:

• “Hitomi ni utsuru keshiki” - Luminous, Mayuko
• “Strange fruit” - Nina Simone
• “Boulevard of broken dreams” - Maiya Sykes, Postmodern jukebox
• “Mr. Rattlebone” - Matt Maeson
• “Stubborn beast” - Bear’s den
• “Blue eyes” - Springbok nude girls
• “Farsi prayer” - Lisbeth Scott
• “Hey ma durga” - Krishna Das, Baird Hersey, Prana
• “Bright morning stars” - The wailin’ Jennys
• “Hymn 1, Axion esti” - Vassilis Tsabropoulos
• “La danse de mardi gras” - The Balfa brothers

A biosphere that becomes unlivable is an emergency. The biggest and root cause of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is human overpopulation:

• https://phys.org/news/2023-04-population-growth-main-driver-carbon.html
• https://interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/embed/2017/07/co2_saved/giv-3902H9Q7lx2HE5M7/

The fact that the biggest and root cause of a mass extinction event is being reduced is not an emergency, it’s good.

opossum is naturally immune to rabies

The CDC says they’re not, they just rarely have rabies: https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/rabies/pdf/vs-0612-wildlife-rabies-h.pdf

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“Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents, and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities; and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: garbage in, garbage out. […] If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public.” - George Carlin https://piped.video/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70