Climate

NY Times - In a new book, “Plastic Inc.,” the journalist Beth Gardiner digs into an industry that mostly flies below the radar but has huge impacts on human health, environmental pollution and global warming. She reveals a set of corporate actors, including some well-known names like Exxon Mobil and Saudi Aramco, that are doing everything in their power to get the world to use as much plastic as possible.

It’s a sobering read that exposes disinformation campaigns, efforts to foist responsibility onto individual consumers and brutally effective political lobbying, all of it very similar to the playbooks used by Big Tobacco and Big Oil.