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"Harrowing but essential reading. I appreciated Gardiner's three-fold approach: history of plastics, history of plastic chemical health related conditions and ongoing concerns, and history (I'm so sick of this and I know you are too) of corporations d"
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""Plastic Inc." will blow your mind and change the way you think about plastic. It's a gripping and fantastic work of journalism and research. The author Beth Gardiner makes the case that consumers are not to blame for the ever-increasing mountain of "
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“dirty air causes 7 million early deaths annually,2 more than AIDS, diabetes, and traffic accidents combined, making it the single biggest environmental threat to health.3 New data suggests that number may climb even higher, pushing air pollution into the very top tier of global killers.”
― Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
― Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
“Looking back, what seems clear to him now is that while making choices that would affect millions of people, over decades, neither he nor those around him stopped to take a longer-term view. It’s especially upsetting, he says, to recall that he and his colleagues were aware of diesel’s dangers. Concerned enough to add a nominal premium into their tax overhaul, but not enough to rethink the system they were creating. More than any one decision, it’s that short-sightedness he regrets now: “It’s a horrible thing to say, but it almost didn’t seem relevant to ask what the long-term consequences were. Didn’t seem like that’s what my job was.” In his view—and I agree—that flaw wasn’t unique to one party, or one time. Nor even one country. It’s “bound up in the nature of our politics. You’re operating one budget to the next, one election to the next,” he says. “The mistake is the way we were doing the job.”
― Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
― Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
“There’s another lesson in our history, one that offers a valuable signpost for today: The benefits of cleaner air almost always dwarf its costs. When we’re contemplating change, the price tag tends to loom larger, and those who will have to pay often exaggerate it, hoping we’ll shy away from action. But when polluters are forced to clean up, they buckle down and find the cheapest way to do it. That determination often brings innovations that make change quicker and easier than predicted. And while the cost is less than we’d feared, the benefits are often much larger, multiplying in a cascade of well-being and rising productivity. Spread among millions of people, they can be hard to see, but that doesn’t make them any less real.”
― Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
― Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution