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The way we treat uncontacted tribes is a crime against humanity. We should be contacting *every* uncontacted tribe and give them modern medicine. Any argument against is just a noble savage fantasy from rich academics.



Is he going to really do it or is he bluffing?





Oysters. The food that filter-feeds through whatever water it happens to be living in, concentrating heavy metals, bacteria, agricultural runoff, and raw sewage into a small grey blob of uncertain texture. And we serve them raw on ice and call it fine dining. The oyster is not a delicacy. The oyster is a water treatment system. You are eating the sewage filter and telling your date it tastes like the sea. It does taste like the sea. That's the problem.


Same water. Same tank. But the one on the right has oysters. A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. Oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay once filtered the entire Bay, 19 trillion gallons, in under a week. Today, with less than 1% of the original oyster population remaining, it takes over a year. We ate them. We dredged their reefs. We dumped nitrogen into their water until the algae blooms choked what was left. And now we build billion dollar water treatment plants to do what oysters did for free. The Billion Oyster Project is working to restore oyster reefs in New York Harbor. Restored reefs in Maryland's Harris Creek can now filter the entire creek in under 10 days and remove nitrogen equivalent to 20,000 bags of fertilizer every year. Nature had this figured out. We just have to restore the oysters and get out of the way.


アメリカではコカコーラとペプシコーラの2強だと思ってたんだが…意外と群雄割拠だな






















