slat surprisings
via boyan slat tweet [https://x.com/BoyanSlat/status/1746211702968906049?s=20]:
Recently, I decided I wanted to read every page of one of my favorite websites @OurWorldInData. I’m about halfway now. Here are the 30 most surprising things I’ve learned about the world so far!
3. Globally, twice as many people die from suicide than from homicide. In Germany, 18x more people die from suicide than from homicide (primarily a result of low homicide rates).
suicide.. the death of us ness..
5. The causes of death most reported by the news (natural disasters, wars, and terrorism) jointly lead to less than 0.3% of deaths worldwide.
7. Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world. In Greenland, suicides peak in spring and summer (probably due to lower-quality sleep) – *not* in winter, as is commonly believed.
11. Polio used to affect few people because bad hygiene caused babies to be already exposed to the virus when they could still benefit from their mother’s immunity. Thus, ironically, it was improved sanitation that caused polio to kill many people in the early 20th century!
bush immune system law et al
16. Drug overdoses are now the single-largest cause of death for Americans under 50.
maté addiction law.. hari present in society law.. et al
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of m\a\p
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be you. 