This kills my only hope …… a couple weeks ago I was trying to be positive on environmental news and made a big deal to my kids that during their lifetime they’ll be able to eat unlimited tuna.

The general recommendation for tuna has always been to limit it to once a week, to moderate mercury poisoning. The mercury is generally from coal emissions. However globally we appear to be at peak coal and likely to drop quickly, given china’s rapid buildout of renewables both there and in developing countries, and given US coal use has been declining for years. In only a couple decades we’ll have greatly reduced mercury contaminating the ocean food chain, a few more years for it to drop out of the food chain, then MTGA, Make Tuna Great Again!

It seems inevitable but this one deranged individual can noticeably slow the process. Can I still hope my kids will see it?

One wonders if this is by design. Keeps the constituent too dumb and I’ll to understand that they’re being fucked by their leaders. It’s a conspiracy theory, of course, but it’s hard not to see it this way

“In fact, fuck it. We’re going to add MINIMUMS. At least one pound of mercury per tonne!”