28,000,000,000, pounds of plastic is dumped into Earth's rivers and streams each year" 'says' a commentator on NPR........Where/How do these statisticians come up with these 'Numbers'? There are tens of millions of these 'statistics/numbers' for Everything.......[ "X" % of white, one-legged pogo stick riders wear mismatched shoes during competitive 'jumping'......or 46/87 people who use a particular brand of toothpaste use toothbrushes manufactured by the same company that manufactures the 'paste'.......or 21.4% of the population of some undocumented tribe of Amazonian Tribes have portable, battery-powered radios].......Well......Everything is reduced to some statistical 'number'......which 83.24% of the World Human Population (WHP) accepts, on Faith.......as accurate and scientific Truth......... It would take more than a 'grain of salt' to make most of these 'numbers' palatable...for me, anyway......I must be in the 3% of skeptical unbelievers in the 6% of the 33% that even question the mathematical absolutism of the Science that is feigned 'in the numbers'........
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