"A Bag’s Life is just one small part of a massive, industry-led effort now underway to suppress meaningful efforts to reduce plastic waste while keeping the idea of recycling alive. The reality of plastics recycling? It’s pretty much already dead. In 2015, the U.S. recycled about 9 percent of its plastic waste, and since then … Continue reading The Plastic Industry’s Fight to Keep Polluting the World
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Commodified Emotions as Entertainment
"As with Fear Factor nearly two decades ago, it's worth asking what exactly what is being watched and why? It seemed to me then, and still does, that we are watching human beings whose emotions are extracted and commodified for our entertainment. I would still argue, as I did then, that this is dehumanizing, both … Continue reading Commodified Emotions as Entertainment
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