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Plastics are a byproduct of fossil fuel production, and it was and is inevitable (under capitalism) that the overproduction of plastic would lead to the manufactured demand for massive amounts of plastic goods. There was a major marketing push in the 1950s to sell consumers on the disposability of plastic, to create further demand by erasing their Great Depression/wartime-era habits of saving and reusing. There are many examples of successful campaigns to put the masses on cheap garbage, like corn syrup, that people would not have been drawn to spontaneously. These things work.
Fossil fuel companies are major centers of political power, with deep military-industrial ties, easily acquiring politicians and regulators, and encircling any stubborn holdouts. Something major would have to displace them to free up the kind of political oxygen needed for any serious effort to end plastic’s invasive presence in our lives.
A decolonial not-for-profit military answerable to a socialist state could dislodge them, and I don’t think anything less could.
Had a childhood crush on Dr. Crusher, but maturity has brought me a middle aged crush on Pulaski. Wish they’d had some guest appearances by her after season 2.
The last pretenses of an alliance with labor have lost their credibility, it’s past time the parties be depicted as the two internal combustion cylinders on a drive shaft that only spins to the right
Not this time. Pure fiction. We got you. It never happened.
Brits unloaded their Puritans on the new world, it’s the Yanks’ problem now
I’m Demetrious Polychron –
– and you just got cyberpunk’d
Computer! Create a fistful of adversaries capable of defeating Worf
“Never Forget”, at least not until the empire has cynically wrung the last bit of sympathetic credulity from the last oblivious grillman. 9/11s were never intended to appreciate in value; they are printed to be spent.
:they-live-sunglasses-off: haha, millennials are no longer young
:they-live-sunglasses-on: entrust your secrets to the cloud
Elitist workers have for decades been leaving the cries of the senator class unheeded
I took the RISK of investing in making workers build the unicycle profit scooper