Leftist Lawyer on Nostr: This is a great interview with Adam Hanieh, who recently published "Crude Capitalism: ...
This is a great interview with Adam Hanieh, who recently published "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market"
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**Today, oil companies describe petrochemicals and plastics literally as the future of oil. If plastics were a country, the emissions associated with their production would rank them as the world’s fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter. So we need to think about plastics in the sense of how they have embedded the power of oil in our lives, and are thus a central question to tackling the climate crisis.**
#Climate #ClimateCrisis
#plastic #oil #petrochemical #financial #media #industrial #Complex
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**Today, oil companies describe petrochemicals and plastics literally as the future of oil. If plastics were a country, the emissions associated with their production would rank them as the world’s fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter. So we need to think about plastics in the sense of how they have embedded the power of oil in our lives, and are thus a central question to tackling the climate crisis.**
#Climate #ClimateCrisis
#plastic #oil #petrochemical #financial #media #industrial #Complex