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What Big Oil doesn’t want you to know about plastic, with journalist Beth Gardiner

What Big Oil doesn’t want you to know about plastic, with journalist Beth Gardiner

Climate Curious · Josie Colter

February 13, 202611m 22s

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Show Notes

From WWII radars to Tupperware, LEGO, and even heart transplants, plastic permeates every facet of our lives. But how much of this was Big Oil's "Plan B” strategy to triple production and keep profits high? Climate Curious gets the scoop on big plastic's secret and shocking history from environmental journalist and TEDxLondon speaker Beth Gardiner. As Beth tells us, "it's actually enraging rather than depressing" when you learn to see through the lies that CEOs have sold us – around individual blame and beach litter cleanups – versus the real solution: corporates cleaning up their own mess. 


Read more in Beth Gardiner’s new book, ‘Plastic Inc.’: https://linktr.ee/plasticinc 


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