www.newyorker.com

They both release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea. Will we ever be rid of them?

Final paragraph:

"“In the grand scheme of human existence, it wasn’t that long ago that we got along just fine without plastic,” Simon points out. This is true. It also wasn’t all that long ago that we got along just fine without Coca-Cola or packaged guacamole or six-ounce bottles of water or takeout everything. To make a significant dent in plastic waste—and certainly to “end plastic pollution”—will probably require not just substitution but elimination. If much of contemporary life is wrapped up in plastic, and the result of this is that we are poisoning our kids, ourselves, and our ecosystems, then contemporary life may need to be rethought. The question is what matters to us, and whether we’re willing to ask ourselves that question."

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Von Hernandez von@breakfreefromplastic.org via lists.riseup.net 05:00 (10 hours ago)to bffp.discussion

---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Judith Enck <judithenck@bennington.edu>Date: Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 8:47 AMSubject: [BFFP-US] Fwd: How Plastics Are Poisoning Us | The New YorkerTo: BFFP USA <bffp-us@breakfreefromplastic.org>Stellar article in the New Yorker by Elizabeth Kolbert, below.  I especially appreciate the last paragraph.fyi:  I will be interviewing Elizabeth Kolbert and Bill McKibben during a Beyond Plastics webinar on Wednesday, July 12 at 7pm eastern.  Lots of time for audience questions.  Pre register at BeyondPlastics.orgcheers, Judith Enck