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diff --git a/covid.txt b/covid.txt deleted file mode 100644 index fe67407..0000000 --- a/covid.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ -"I wish travel in the widespread recommendation sense was understood and in a wider or more metaphorical sense. Try out new things. Different ways of living. Associating with different socioeconomic classes. Different kinds of works. Different faiths. Different politics. Different ways of providing for yourself. Testing boundaries." - - -At the risk of pointing out the obvious, life is not on pause. Culture is on pause. - - - -This seems to be something that becomes whatever the politicians want it to be. This is no longer about health and science. - - - - - - -This is the same sort of paradox Michael Pollan identified regarding food: we are the first generation to have obesity and malnourishment simultaneously. - - - - -• 104 nuclear reactors in 31 states, operated by 30 different companies. Every single one “temporarily” storing high-level waste that will be lethal for 10,000 to 24,000 years - -• 40,000 to 80,000 (exact number unknown) chemical factories producing or processing materials with multiple “compounds known to be carcinogenic and/or mutagenic” - -• More than 40 weapons-testing facilities and 70,000 nuclear bombs and missiles - -• 104,000,000 cubic meters of high-level radioactive waste from weapons-testing activities alone - -• 925 operating uranium mines - -• 20 to 30 times the average historical background rates of mercury in rain - -• 2,200 square miles of excavated valleys and leveled mountains in Appalachia alone - -• 478,562 active natural gas mines in the United States in 2008, with 1,800 expected to be drilled in the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania alone in 2010 - -• 18,433,779,281 cubic feet of trash per year, or 100,000 acres of trash one-foot deep per year, or about 250 square miles, with trash 400 feet deep |