I’m not going to try to talk you into becoming a activist or sympathy for sea life or even getting into our water. Nor argue point there is a issue with human pollution threatening sea life and dumping should be illegal whether you see it where you are or not. Who’s not to say that dumping couldn’t cause propellers on boats to get tangled up next.
Who’s to say you won’t walk into the ocean and get your foot all cut up and need sutures like I did because some idiot threw a broken bottle in the water or dumped off a boat and washed ashore.
Milton Friedman mentioned something funny about coal back when. Someone wrote a book on it concerning coal was not infinite looking for alternatives not having much hope oil could help lower demand. Now it’s reversed to coal helping demand on oil.
About inflation, it’s not okay anyway you look at it. It only means government is over spending past its budget and expects us to pay for it.