It would be nice if we could call a halt to the plague of numbers for their own sake. Such as the information that 941 pieces of plastic were found in a highly polluted river. The number without a smattering context – such as the size of the pieces, the types of plastic, sources and so on – is meaningless and not worth the trouble of gathering.
Who’s going to be impressed by 941 microscopic bits of plastic in a whole river?
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