writerofenglish

Holy fuck, that actually worked! Total silence for the first time in years! Thanks!

Edit: It worked for about an hour, then the tinnitus returned. Still, it was a welcome break. I couldn't believe how quiet the world was.

Also, what does Russia do after oil and gas? Its economic growth is anaemic even now and it seems to have no plans to survive the sustainable era. Ditto with a lot of ME countries.

There's a good 15 years to prepare, probably, but it might need outside intervention if a disastrous collapse is to be avoided.

It questions why you smoke and tells you why you don't have to. It examines some of the psychology around smoking in a reader-friendly way. All this stuff is drilled into you many times over. It's repetitious but it gets you thinking at length about things that you ordinarily gloss over or avoid thinking about. There's nothing magical or deep about it but the messages do connect after a while.

What about visas?

In all honesty, we barely even put a dent in the fish population.

At least 20 million marine fish are caught for the aquarium trade each year, the vast majority of them dying before they reach someone's home. Most of these fish will be from a handful of species from Indonesia or the Philippines, and this has been going on for decades. To say that it barely makes a dent in the populations seems absurd. You simply can't know that.

Oh, and claiming that it's OK because the fishing industry is worse really doesn't get you off the hook.