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Plastic promises to give us the world by removing us from it.

Plastic’s Broken Promise At Orion Magazine, as part of its series “on the effects of the petrochemical industry on life, economics, and democracy,” David Farrier reflects on gloves and their medical history, as well as the strange beauty and environmental cost of cast-off plastic gloves — now oft-sighted street detritus that have become a requirement for many to survive amid the pandemic. In late March, around the same time I first noticed the gloves outside my house, photographer Dan ...