The leading cause of death for Roman Emperors, and most rulers throughout history, was violent death, primarily assassination or execution, followed by suicide...
You know, maybe we should consider this option more thoroughly.
At the very least, if you're trying to persuade to have kids, people who have chosen to not have kids, those people are not childless, they are child free. Their will is to be without child. They are not failing at having kids, they are succeeding at not having them.
Which is kind of what I'm getting at. I've read that we have the equivalent to as much as a crayons worth of micro plastics in our brain. A crayon, while not particularly scientific, puts a pretty fine point on the issue in an intuitive sense, and also addresses the cumulative nature of the pollution. By the head line it seems like they are only talking about a certain sized micro plastic, and without further context they might as well just say "a lot".
"Particles" is almost useless as a measure. They're not movie tickets, I'm not interested in their discreet number. Give me a defined quantity. Is 10,000 particles 1 gram, half a gram, a tenth of a gram, what?
"You're eating far too many particles of salt, we're going to need to to cut back by at least 2,000 particles every lunar cycle."
Punishment as a deterrent hasn't worked for the entirety of human civilization. Otherwise we would have fewer murders than other countries as we continue to be one of the few places that cling to capital punishment. There will always be monsters. I won't argue that murder isn't justified, but it also isn't a "solution" in the strictest sense. Fear is what you're talking about and it is a fickle master.
Conservatives think [it's] simple, they take [it] apart and can't get it to work again, liberals fix [it], conservatives get jealous, how complicated can [it] be? I'll show those hot shot know-it-alls, takes [it] apart, can't get [it] to work again...
Even if we get the 37% or so of truly burdensome people out of intellectual debt, the best we can seemingly hope for is ~45 years before the entire nation forgets all of the hard lessons it learned and insists on relearning them again.
Here's the progression: unignorable calamity (inspiration, debt) > society bands together (creation, true wealth) > conspicuously wealthy take unfair advantage (consumption, illusion of gains) > unignorable calamity, ad infinitum. Or to simplify: conservatives break things, liberals fix things, and neither learn a lesson.
Unless he is literally flayed on live tv within the next couple months, his continued existence is an affront to the entire concept of karma. He's already so old, and so influential, and so insulated by sycophants, he's already crossed the finish line. He won. He has lived a life seemingly entirely devoid of regrets. He is potentially the greatest rapist of all time. Of women, of children, of society, of the nation, and of the future itself.
The successor to the b2 is almost even owlier.