Consequences of a Plastic Addiction – Mother Earth News
In the last half century, there have been many drastic changes to the surface of our planet, but one of the most astonishing is the ubiquity and abundance of plastic.
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In the last half century, there have been many drastic changes to the surface of our planet, but one of the most astonishing is the ubiquity and abundance of plastic.
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The First Nations taught us the fun of chomping on sweetened tree resin. So what did we do? We replaced it with a synthetic gum made of butyl rubber, paraffin, petroleum wax, polyethylene, polyisobutylene, and polyvinyl acetate. Now, in the first ten years of this millennium, we have manufactured more plastic than we made in the entire twentieth century.
Let's talk about movies and plastics. No, not The Graduate yet again, but instead the seasonal classic It's a Wonderful Life.
Director Frank Capra, before he got into movies, was a chemical engineering graduate from the California Institute of Technology, although he was frustrated by his inability to turn that degree into a career before he found his way into film. There's a theory that his own studies led to inserting the line about plastics, although I haven't been able to find confirmation of that.