{"id":247504,"date":"2025-05-19T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-last-teabag-theory-of-human-survival-by-steve-way\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:17:21","slug":"the-last-teabag-theory-of-human-survival-by-steve-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=247504","title":{"rendered":"The Last Teabag Theory of Human Survival by Steve Way"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

\u00a0I know that
\nmany believe that with the Global Warming crisis becoming ever more concerning,
\npresuming various presidents don\u2019t pre-empt our climatic destruction by
\nplunging us in World War, and whilst the expressions \u2018eleventh hour\u2019 and \u2018thirteenth
\nhour\u2019 are often being referred to, I would like to propose a new term to
\ndescribe human behaviour when on the brink of disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n

My wife and
\nI are virtually addictive tea-drinkers*, preferring that produced by a brand (I
\nimagine we have to avoid direct advertising) associated with a large region in
\nthe northeast of England, which according to the locals at least is
\nparticularly favoured by God but where curiously not one single tea plantation
\nexists. Nevertheless, we love their tea.<\/span><\/p>\n

We now live
\nin France, so the Linked-to-a-Northern-Area Tea is harder to come by. It is
\npossible but we\u2019d have to remortgage our house in order to be able to afford more
\nthan a few days supply. Fortunately, we have some marvellous family and friends
\nwho bring over supplies whenever they traverse the Channel, a little like the
\nRed Cross supplying POWs with gratefully received essentials during the war. Even
\nwhen sending us birthday cards or Christmas cards they often squeeze in a few
\nvaluable tea bags.<\/span><\/p>\n

In spite of
\nthese kindnesses, we still often run short of bags to make a brew. What I have
\nnoticed then is that these last few bags (and especially the very last one) but
\nonly<\/i> these teabags, are heavily recycled. That last teabag must have
\nevery single molecule of tea giving flavour squeezed out of it, to the extent
\nthat we possibly manage to split said molecules into smaller tea flavoured
\ncomponents.**<\/span><\/p>\n

This never
\nhappens to the other teabags. If we extracted as much caffeine and the associated
\ncomponents out of all the other teabags in the box, we could conceivably keep
\nbrewing brews until the end of the century. When the box is full, or even half
\nfull, we happily use each teabag once, or twice at the most, seemingly
\nforgetting the trauma of our last Make-that-teabag-last-forever nightmare
\nbefore we gained new supplies and acting as though our supplies are endless. If
\nwe recycled each bag twice, we could probably survive comfortably between each
\nbox.<\/span><\/p>\n

But we don\u2019t.
\nWe never learn. Sooner or later we\u2019ll be practising advanced calisthenics
\nsquashing a teaspoon into a teabag as hard as we can against the edge of a mug.
\nI know we\u2019re hopeless, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019re alone in our tendency to such frantic
\nlast minute madness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence my
\nsuggestion for a term to describe our behaviour on the brink of disaster. Namely
\nThe Last Teabag Theory of Human Survival.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, when
\nfinally all of us, barring those wearing orange caps perhaps, can see that we
\nneed to save the planet, some last-minute action seems to be taking place. I\u2019m intrigued
\nby the work going into \u2018Carbon Capture\u2019. That seems such a Last Teabag idea. I can\u2019t
\nhelp myself think of it as ingenious cheating. \u2018We\u2019ve created a problem. But
\nlet\u2019s not solve the actual problem. Let\u2019s find a way of dealing with the
\nproblem caused by the problem.\u2019 Well, if it plays a part in saving us that\u2019s
\nfantastic but it could also be seen as an excuse for allowing \u2018business as
\nusual\u2019. Also development of clean forms of producing energy seems to be
\naccelerating. <\/span><\/p>\n

But will we
\nbe able to save the planet before the teabag runs out?<\/span><\/p>\n

*If some
\nmethod of taking it in intravenously existed, we would at least look into it.<\/span><\/p>\n

**I have
\nconsidered writing to the purveyors of Linked-to-a-Northern-Area Tea and
\nsuggesting that they include an extra-large teabag at the bottom of each box
\nthat could be mashed and mangled for even longer than a standard bag to support
\nall those of us that work The Last Teabags to the limits of its endurance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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