I’ve written about the “end of environmentalism”over the past two years. Here’s another reason why I haven’t changed my mind. If you don’t understand how the oil industry is poisoning us and lying to us, you need to hear this podcast by NPR’s Fresh Air. It’s “Big Tobacco” all over again. It’s worse than you think. Get angry, demand change. Buy at the Co-op where they use less plastic on produce. But you can’t avoid it and the industry banks on it. Literally.
In award-winning journalist Beth Gardiner’s new book, ‘Plastic Inc.,’ she traces how plastic went from a wartime miracle to the survival strategy of the fossil fuel industry. What Gardiner found after years of reporting is that while millions of us were recycling and using less fuel, the companies that make plastic are producing more to make up for it. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about recycling, microplastics in the human body, and the environmental impact.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/01/nx-s1-5770396/an-expose-of-the-plastic-industry