Here are entries that are tagged “stupidity.”
According to the World Health Organisation, 3.4 million persons, mostly children, die annually from preventable water-related diseases.
The Pacific Institute reported that in developing countries, an estimated 90 percent of sewage and 70 percent of industrial waste is discharged into waterways without any treatment.
The Oceans Project and Pacific Garbage Screening tell that about 700 tons of plastic is cast into seas and oceans daily. And news reports tell of dead marine animals, including whales, choked or strangled by plastics.
While much is being done to improve the quality of the world’s waters, there are fears that the scope of all of the water-polltion problems isn’t realized and that industries’ concerns (profits) overrride public-health and wildlife-conservation concerns.
On this date in 1986, N.A.S.A.’s incompetence and negligence resulted in the involuntary manslaughter of seven astronauts and the destruction of space shuttle Challenger 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” –George Orwell’s novel 1984
“Truth isn’t truth.” –Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, on Meet the Press