After Christmas a World of Guilt
Our world is an oil world. It’s an energy hungry beast of a world, consuming itself tail first. We started extracting oil from the earth only five generations ago and plastic came along only four generations ago. Mass produced plastic goods and packaging are even more recent. Those of us born just after the Second World War, the baby boomers, were not brought up with plastic toys, our food was not wrapped in plastic. Telephones and electric plugs were made from Bakelite, a precursor of modern plastics. Most houses were heated by coal or coke which produced lots of...
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