We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

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We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the

omnibus. So, You have accessed entry 124. EZ-3629, certificate number 329 329, bioplastics.

Plastic bags or scourged the environment.

Not only do they clog up storm drains and create flooding.

You know, they kill, you know, sea tortoises and dolphins and

whales.

But even more so, they break up into these micro particles that ends up in their drinking water.

Jeff Tittle is the director of the New Jersey Sierra Club.

I know you're concerned about the environment.

I'm pretty concerned about the environment.

I feel like for Gen Z especially, but also for younger millennials, the state of the environment

is their number one issue,

their number one fear for the future,

number one sense that we are on a path

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