"Sure, we’re in the middle of a heat wave — but you may want to think twice before cranking up the AC."
"As the Earth warms and summers become increasingly hotter, we turn to pollutant air conditioners to cool down, furthering environmental damage."
"As many as 1,000 additional people each year along the Eastern U.S. could die from comp"Sure, we’re in the middle of a heat wave — but you may want to think twice before cranking up the%""lications due to higher levels of air pollution from increased air conditioning use, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison said in a new study published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Medicine."
"On top of that, the study found that about 13,000 people along the Eastern U.S. could die per year by 2050 from the hazardous particulate matter released into the air as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, and there could be another 3,000 deaths from ozone exposure."
"A few months ago, my partner and I went snorkelling off the coast of Indonesia. We dove off tiny deserted islands and swam in the deep with giant manta rays, but what I remember most vividly about that trip was not the stunning coral or dazzling array of colourful, curious fish; it was the sheer amount of garbage in the water."
"Shopping bags, plastic cups, toothpaste tubes, orange peel, all manner of human debris followed the currents; waves and waves of junk pooling in the shallow waters. In these parts of the reef, the water was cloudy and full of so much microscopic debris that it stung the skin. I remember watching a majestic giant turtle swim through the gloom as my head bumped against an old Coke bottle bobbing on the surface of the water."
Doesn't that water look super cold and refeshing?
"For years, a U.S. Postal Service stamp mistakenly bore the image of a Lady Liberty replica."
"That statue welcomes visitors to the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and between 2010 and 2014, it earned the Postal Service over $70 million in profits."
"Last week, Las Vegas sculptor Robert Davidson was awarded $3.5 million from the Postal Service in a lawsuit."
"You're buying the package,
You're buying the dream,
You pay for the ads
On the television screen,
They sell you a story,
They sell you a mood,
But what they don't deliver is food."
