Julia Cohen
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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distracted from and the marketing and the information has, you know, been deliberately put the onus on individuals to recycle better, to, you know, make it our problem, make it an individual decision, all of these things when the protections, the regulations that people assume that our government and different branches of the government are doing to protect us from things that can impact our health have been non-existent.
As I said before, the entire supply chain, the entire life cycle of the creation of plastics.
So 99% of plastics are made from fossil fuels.
So the extraction of oil and gas in this country, in the Ohio River Valley, in Louisiana, what's referred to as Cancer Alley, in the Houston corridor.
I mean, the people who live on the front line and fence line, the poor working class, people of color, indigenous people who live in these regions.
have some of the worst health impacts.
Wait, why Ohio River Valley?
That's the Permian Basin.
So a lot of dinosaurs died there, basically.
So underground is a lot of oil and gas and frack gas.
A lot of plastics are made from frack gas.
Plastics is plan B for the oil and gas industry.
And now basically becoming Plan A. People refer to this as the triple planetary crisis because it is a health crisis.
It is an environmental crisis.
It is a political crisis.
Wars are being fought over plastic because it's made from oil and gas, basically.
Right.
And the price of these things have gone up, whereas no one's fighting over solar energy.
Yeah.
Well, so part of why my sister and I are co-founders of Plastic Pollution Coalition is because our mom died of cancer when I was 13 and she was 17.
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