Hello and welcome to the Anthropocene Reviewed, a podcast where we review different facets

of the Human-centered planet on a five-star scale.

I'm John Green, and today I'll be reviewing 17.

That's right, 17.

Topics suggested by listeners who emailed me at AnthropoceneReviewed at gmail.com.

Thousands of you have been kind enough to write in, despite the email address being

nearly impossible to spell.

You send suggestions and encouragement.

You send your own beautifully written and carefully considered reviews.

Or you send your worries and fears and hopes.

People sometimes write to tell me this podcast has made them cry.

So I guess I should reveal in turn that your emails make me cry almost every day with

joy and anger and shared grief.

I cry because I am moved by what humans can do for each other and because I am moved

by what we can't or don't do for each other.

I don't respond to the emails, which I feel bad about, but it's not practical to respond

to each one and to respond with a form letter would feel wholly insufficient.

And so I choose to leave the other end of the line silent.

I'm sorry about that, and I hope you'll forgive me and accept by way of apology this

listener's suggestion spectacular.

First, 12-year-old Beatrice wrote in to say that she is bullied at school and wants

me to review being a tween.

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