I'm told this isn't as true as I thought it was and many things I thought we used oil for we use other fossil fuels for. Still holds I thinkhttps://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/815923880556720129 …
I fear we're derailing though into negative stuff again. I am aware, e.g., turtles suffocate, etc., etc.
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I think when we started with "I'm legit worried about the apocalypse" negative isn't that much of a derail, but yeah. :-)
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Oh, I feel you: I grew up in an on-going cold war — have always been thinking/dreaming of being near end of life as we know it.
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You're right that the plastics problem is definitely manageable though. I don't know how well we currently manage it.
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On a happier note, did you know some turtles can breathe through their butts?

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I did not know that! Is it a burrowing adaptation, or just one of those "lol, nature" things?
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Aw, poor endangered turtles :-( Great finish line for the article though.
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Poor things yeah... Initially I Googled cloaca to check if fish have them... and came accross this!


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are these turtles breathing by doing underwater kegel exercises??
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I guess so I mean it's a cloaca so k-egg-el *hides extremely welll*
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