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Adetokunbo Abiola
Personal blog · adetokunbo.substack.comsciencepolitics
Adetokunbo Abiola writes Adetokunbo Sees, a personal blog at adetokunbo.substack.com about science and politics. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Climate change: six billion people may suffer from water scarcity”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for posts on ocean plastic pollution, such as the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch and a piece on the 525 trillion pieces of plastic in the oceans. The comments do not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Adetokunbo Sees by Adetokunbo Abiola, a newsletter on developments over the environment and climate change in the coastal areas of Nigeria.
Most-linked posts?
- Climate change: six billion people may suffer from water scarcity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-24
- Perhaps we should stop eating fish:5.25T plastic pieces in ocean garbage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-22
- Whales dying from consuming plastics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-25
What Hacker News says?
> In adetokunbo.substack.com, climate change is a contributory factor behind the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch How is this related to the article? Also pretty sure you this is a straw man. At least https://adetokunbo.substack.com/p/525-trillion-pieces-of-pla... argues the inverse of what you claim.
Comment linking /p/525-trillion-pieces-of-plastic-lodge
on “Scotland ‘snow-free’ for fourth time in six years”Submitted Whales dying from consuming plastics as a story · 106 points
HN discussion> Fishing gear killed the whale. Fishing (eating) killed the whale. "... fishing takes 2.7 trillion fish from oceans globally each year. If this rate of fishing continues, the oceans will be “virtually empty” by 2048, according to marine biologist Dr Sylvia Alice Earle." https://earth.org/facts-from-seaspiracy/ "More than 640,000 tonnes of nets, lines, pots and traps used in commercial fishing are dumped and discard…
Comment linking /p/whales-dying-from-consuming-plastics
on “Whales dying from consuming plastics”Submitted Ban Bottled Water: Microplastics Reside in Them Globally as a story · 77 points
HN discussionSubmitted Climate change: six billion people may suffer from water scarcity as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted The rivers run dry, still the story is darker as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plastics damaged oceans, plastics damaged rivers: plastics now damaging rocks as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Lula Could Bring Hope to Tackling Brazil's Amazon Deforestation as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perhaps we should stop eating fish:5.25T plastic pieces in ocean garbage as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Climate Change:Venomous Species could close in from every Side by 2050 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Despite Heat, Despite Rising Seas, Despite Habitat Loss, Big Oil Marches On as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 63-year-old denial of climate change cost the world $220B in 2021 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deforestation, Displacement: How Sustainable Turns Unsustainable with Lithium as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Terrific Temperatures, Burning Buildings: The World Reels from Climate Change as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remove civil disobedience from climate issue and you will have civil crisis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boycott restaurant food: forever chemicals contaminate 38% of burger wrappers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plastic as Nests, Plastic as Shells: Consequences of Animals' Usage of Plastic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From birds to fishes: consequences of extinction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yes about Cars,Yes about Planes:See How Deforestation says "Yes" about emissions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Something Dreadful Happened with the heat this Year. And it can Happen Again as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heat records on land, heat records in oceans: when will the records end? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polluting plastics, carbon, cancers: the painful results of recycling plastic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vulnerable corals, vulnerable cities: rising heat makes everything vulnerable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wildlife Collapses Irreversible Unless Ecosystem Losses Become Reversible as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mother Nature Wants Us to Shift to Plant-Based Diets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Children born in 2100 may never see animals like penguins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Climate change isn't helping matters as global sperm count declines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of Extinction Because Civilization Is Hitting a Dead End as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't blame Lionel Messi for carbon emissions,other footballers are culprits as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Losses could go above $4.6T from elevated levels of lead and others as a story · 2 points
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