Plastic Profits Over People: The Oil Industry’s Final Stand Against a Dying Planet" While the world wakes up to the irreversible damage plastic has caused to our oceans, wildlife, and bodies, something deeply disturbing is happening behind closed doors. The oil and petrochemical industries—knowing their fossil fuel dominance is slipping in the face of electric vehicles and renewable energy—are making a strategic pivot. That pivot? Doubling down on plastic. That’s right. As demand for gasoline dr
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As fossil fuel demand declines, the petrochemical industry has pivoted to plastic — because plastic is made from oil derivatives, and plastic lasts five hundred years. Every piece of plastic ever manufactured still exists in some form. Much of it has broken into particles too small to see, circulating in the water cycle and in bodies. Understanding this strategic shift helps explain why the plastic crisis isn't an accident. It's the predictable outcome of an industry protecting its margins. This is that story.
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