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"Between 1919 and 1972, what the military blithely called “sea disposal” was standard practice. Globally, millions of tons of live munitions were sunk.
There are hard questions to be asked about a civilization that produces lethal weapons in such gleeful surplus, and with such cavalier disregard for the well-being of living creatures (...)."

Mother help me I'm feeling misanthropic again

[1934] At seven hundred feet Beebe called for a pause to absorb his surroundings, calm his nerves, and reflect on the gravitas of where he was. “Only dead men have sunk below this,” he noted to Hollister.

Oh that is so raw