What do the following quotes have in common?
“In 2023, the tropics saw 3.7 million hectares of forest lost - equivalent to 10 football fields per minute, a slight decline on last year. These losses would have been far higher if it weren’t for Brazil and Colombia.”
~ Matt McGrath, “Climate change: Logging decline after political change in Brazil, Colombia,” BBC
and ~
“ . . . We blowed out a cylinder-head.”
“Good gracious! Anybody hurt?”
“No’m. Killed a nigger.”
“Well, it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt . . . ”
~ Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Isn’t that good news? Only ten football fields per minute of forest loss? Isn’t that wonderful news?
I guess I’ll just stop here. Anything further I might add would only be “gilding the lily.”