For reasons I won't explain, I was reminded the other day of a fact I'd heard at a conference in San Diego a few years ago. With the pitched rise in coffee consumption in the area, a lot more caffeine was entering the waterways after being consumed and processed by drinkers. Big deal, huh? Well, after the appropriate amount of waste water processing, the water enters the bay, and it puts marine life on a fairly permanent caffeine high. I'm not sure exactly what that looks like, but it definitely changes their behavior, and probably not for the better.
It might be good for us to think through the consequences of our actions.
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