Oh no, they knew plastics were bad news. They invented recycling to shift the conversation to consumers and now our entire planet is blanketed with it.
I think that you’re right to assume that corporations do not give a fuck beyond profit. I think you’re wrong to assume that they somehow ‘knew’. Occam’s Razor dictates that they likely didn’t.
I don’t think so.
Human history can be summed up in two words: unintended consequences.
Oh no, they knew plastics were bad news. They invented recycling to shift the conversation to consumers and now our entire planet is blanketed with it.
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled
After seeing this happen with so many other things, it’s hard to think of the corporation as a hapless victim of chance.
I think that you’re right to assume that corporations do not give a fuck beyond profit. I think you’re wrong to assume that they somehow ‘knew’. Occam’s Razor dictates that they likely didn’t.