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Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed
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You might as well just take the long nap.
No ones gonna do anything.
We're gonna keep wringing our hands about it, desperately shout time is running out...and watch time run out, then shrug our shoulders and go "Welp, nothing we can do about it now"
Got the vasectomy already. I'm all set to become the most unreasonable person in the chaos wastes.
We need to convince billionaires to care. They are the ones who hold all the real political power.
nah, guilliotines exist and are very convincing.
we dont actually have to take orders from them.
they dont care about anything but their money and the bunkers where they think they'll hide during the coming man made disasters
Nah, just get santa to solve our crisis