Today's serving of angst

 Tennis ball wasteland? Game grapples with a fuzzy yellow recycling problem

Because tennis balls are extremely hard to recycle and the industry has yet to develop a ball to make that easier, nearly all of the 330 million balls made worldwide each year eventually get chucked in the garbage, with most ending up in landfills, where they can take more than 400 years to decompose. It’s a situation highlighted by Grand Slam events like Flushing Meadows, which will go through nearly 100,000 balls over the course of the tournament.

No matter how much you worry you do not worry enough.

Elsewhere I read about a purported de-decluttering movement ("Our obsession with purging is bad for the planet and making us ashamed of our homes" –Washington Post), a new outbreak of math anxiety ("Math is hard, even for teachers" –Associated Press), women wearing dresses over jeans ("I can't go through this era again" –New York Post), and, of course, the weather ("The summer of 2023 was the hottest on record" –Reuters).

It's a crisis crisis out there and I haven't even had breakfast yet.