Plastic tea bags are horrible: they shed billions of microplastic particles.

Two tendencies come to mind:

• (This is more about phonology than morphology.) Tonal languages tend to occur in humid climates, because tones are harder to produce with a dry throat.
• Adult language learners often simplify complex morphology. Therefore, languages that have experienced large population influxes through conquest or migration tend to have simpler morphology. Taking a step further, you might conclude that places that are more isolated would be more likely to maintain morphological complexity.

Motorists tend to drive at a speed they feel comfortable with, rather than at the posted speed limit. If the speed limit is lowered without alterations to the road design (narrowing the roadway, adding roundabouts, etc.), then it makes sense that lowering the speed limit has little effect on safety.

The pattern is clear, though. Every year, there is a climate summit. Countries bicker, then maybe come to some compromise, and we leave with a cautious sense of optimism. Then a year later it turns out that every country has fallen far short of the stated targets, and there are no repercussions.

The reality is that most people don't care enough about climate change to prioritize it above their own short-term economic well being. Government measures, if they manage to become legislation, get tied up in courts, and get overturned. National elections happen, responsible governments get thrown out, replaced by laissez-faire governments. Russia invades Ukraine, and now petroleum companies are scrambling to increase natural gas development.

People didn't want to be told to put on a sweater in the 1970s. People today in developed nations aren't willing to accept a regression in their lifestyle, and in developing nations aren't willing to forego the cheap easy economic growth from using fossil fuels.

"Get out and vote" doesn't help, when the other side keeps doing those things too.