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Brilliant! Distressing. Reinforced my curmudgeonly dislike of our own species. Let's get off this planet, move to Mars and let this planet heal itself up. We're so stupid, it's painful..

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From one pale flotsam to another, this is brilliant. I especially appreciate the good news links following the incredibly alarming and detailed information on ocean noise pollution. Thanks Jason.

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Thank you, Jason! What a beautiful essay on this important topic.

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Thank you for another fascinating and thought provoking essay. And for the gathered news.

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Disturbing, essential reading.

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Thanks for this, Jason. Fine reporting. Noise and poetry don't mix, of course. So I'll offer this additional quote from Rachel Carson, delivered upon her receiving the National Book Award in 1952 for "The Sea Around Us":

“If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”

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Fascinating. Never thought of noise and ocean together like this. Thanks for this.

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