PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide
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Climate dad to E, J, and C. Working on decarbonization and environmental justice in Cleveland. Founded the Cleveland Refugee Bike Project. Supports Juventus & Eintracht. Opinions my own and probably wrong.
![Check this shit out motherfucker
slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move was trying to do]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wvyq44vfj3m3mkw3slpr4lrf/bafkreibue2x5tit7v4t74zrbqhdwctvkrhneqfxwerwxl4r6gksonefucq)
![From Adam Becker's More Everything Forever:
astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz. "Because think about what an asteroid strike is. It's something that comes out of the blue, that you have absolutely no way of preventing, that you didn't know was going to happen. And I think the reason that you don't hear climate change in the mouths of people who [say] we need to create a backup for humanity-maybe they will talk about it in another forum, but they don't talk about those two things togetheris because climate change implies human responsibility. Climate change implies actions that they are responsible for." Rather than face that responsibility,
billionaires are searching for a way to avoid it. absolutely despise this idea of backing up humanity... (Billionaires] have essentially the most means and the most power to do something about the problems that we actually face, whether they be change or income inequality," they say. "This idea of backing up humanity is about getting out of responsibility by making it seem that we have this Get Out of Jail Free card."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wvyq44vfj3m3mkw3slpr4lrf/bafkreicaysnhcxjx4ewd3slmtpqw5jgehmchpkon5kuium77vhbo3myuxm)
![Jackson Lamb sits next to Catherine Standish in the back of a black cab. Standish stares at Lamb in horror as he snacks on something. A caption reads [burps, farts, groans]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wvyq44vfj3m3mkw3slpr4lrf/bafkreibdkylyczemrcu5lmeghi45tqcou3imxgxry4jmtrlzyob5lfmiqe)
![Col. Kenneth D. Nichols: For the electromagnetic process, silver could substitute at the ratio of eleven to ten. Col. James C. Marshall: I then said to somebody, "Where can we get silver?" Somebody said, “Well how about getting ll this stuff from |Treasury Secretary Mr. [Henry] Morgenthau? He's got I don't know how many hundreds of millions of dollars worth of silver up there at West Point."
Col. Kenneth D. Nichols: Since the government would own the plants and the silver could be returned after the war, we decided we should approach the U.S. Treasury to borrow the needed metal from the silver repository. As a result, I visited Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Daniel Bell. He explained the procedure for transferring the silver and asked, "How much do you need?" I replied, "Six thousand tons." "How many troy ounces is that?" he asked. In fact, did not know how to convert tons to troy ounces, and neither did he. A little impatient, I responded, don't know how many troy ounces we need, but I know I need six thousand tons-that is a definite quantity. What difference does it make how we express the quantity?" He replied rather indignantly, "Youngman, you may think of silver in tons, but the Treasury will always think of silver in troy ounces." With our contrasting perspectives expressed, we then settled on a form of agreement that was ultimately used to transter some 14,700 tons of silver from its storage place at West Point to New Jersey, where it was melted down and cast into large ingots for shipment to Allis- Chalmers in Milwaukee for further processing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wvyq44vfj3m3mkw3slpr4lrf/bafkreichm6blsyzbsy6ln4yzi7owmz3feq6muceeimk5np6ywvace4m244)
