{"id":612661,"date":"2024-03-14T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T03:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-how-plastic-is-literally-invading-us-all\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T06:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T03:10:05","slug":"watch-how-plastic-is-literally-invading-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-how-plastic-is-literally-invading-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch How Plastic Is Literally Invading Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a300e483a581\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a300e483a581\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-how-plastic-is-literally-invading-us-all\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_How_Plastic_Is_Literally_Invading_Us_All%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online How Plastic Is Literally Invading Us All&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-how-plastic-is-literally-invading-us-all\/#%E2%80%9CHow_Plastic_Is_Literally_Invading_Us_All%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;How Plastic Is Literally Invading Us All&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_How_Plastic_Is_Literally_Invading_Us_All%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online How Plastic Is Literally Invading Us All&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHow_Plastic_Is_Literally_Invading_Us_All%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;How Plastic Is Literally Invading Us All&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cPlastic People\u201d is one of those essential state-of-our-world documentaries. If and when it gets a release (it premiered this week at SXSW), I urge you to see it, to ponder its message, to consider what it\u2019s saying about how microplastics \u2014 plastic particles that are less than 5mm in length, though the key ones may be microscopic \u2014 have invaded our food, our water, our air, and, quite specifically, our bodies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For decades, it\u2019s been a trope of environmental filmmaking to showcase the ugliness of landfills, and to ask where all the plastic we throw out is ultimately going to go. \u201cPlastic People\u201d has some of that. Yet its portrait of what plastic is doing to us is even more distressingly advanced. Yes, plastic is hell on the environment (no small thing), but the thrust of the film\u2019s message is that it\u2019s also toxifying us from within. It has been documented that the plastic particles we inhale, or imbibe, can foment diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, and the film presents powerful evidence that it\u2019s a major contributor to rising infertility levels. Plastic disrupts our hormones, and in one queasy section the film shows us a placenta with plastic particles in it. In its way, \u201cPlastic People\u201d is a horror movie. It could have been called \u201cAttack of the Killer Polymers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Do I think it\u2019s alarmist? No. If anything, during its last half hour (the film runs 80 minutes), it gets a little hippie-dippy utopian in advocating for a post-plastic world. \u201cWe became the first plastic-free community in North America,\u201d says a resident of Bayfield, Canada, as teenagers hand out reusable produce bags and a take-out restaurant owner serves his brussel-sprout tacos in a plastic-free fast-food wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er. \u201cWe can sort of turn back the clock, one piece at a time,\u201d says one of the film\u2019s talking heads. Maybe, maybe not. The movie has already made the daunting point that plastic is so wound into the fabric of our lives that the notion that we\u2019re going to purge ourselves of it may be a Luddite fantasy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Directed by Ben Addelman, with Ziya Tong as co-director and interviewer, \u201cPlastic People\u201d offers a fascinating history of plastic, showing us how the stuff gradually took over. It all began, in a way, with ivory \u2014 yes, ivory tusks, which were used in the 19th century to make brushes and all kinds of utensils; ivory was a very plastic-like substance. In the early 20th century, products like celluloid could imitate ivory\u2019s hardness. Bakelite was an early automobile-age plastic, and then, in the \u201920s and \u201930s, we saw the rise of the petrochemical companies, which needed something to do with the waste products from their processing. That become the groundwork for the modern plastics industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s no coincidence that many of the big plastic companies are branch plants of oil companies. Big Oil and Big Plastic are joined at the hip. The plastic companies we know today \u2014 Dow, Mobil, Dupont \u2014 had teams of industrial chemists coming up with materials for which there was no im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te need or demand (with the notable exception of nylons, which everyone wanted because they could mimic silk stockings, which were too expensive). The plastic production was then ramped up exponentially during World War II. All of which set the stage for\u2026the plastic \u201950s!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film gives us plenty of cleverly edited archival footage of the Atomic Age, showing us how in the postwar era plastics went into shoes, fabrics (dacron, orlon), appliances, vinyl records, Naugahyde furniture, and cars. When these products began to reach a critical mass in middle-class homes, a new concept was pioneered: disposables! It was a very conscious strategy. And that\u2019s when the plastics industry really took off. At a certain point, you begin to get single-use versions of what had long been durable products, like cups or cigarette lighters. Life magazine did a feature story entitled \u201cThrowaway Living.\u201d Perhaps the best example of how tossing everything away became the new (toxic) normal is our own embrace of disposable water bottles. Did you know that 1.5 billion plastic water bottles are bought every day? That\u2019s the sort of stat-that-gives-you-pause that\u2019s sprinkled throughout a documentary like this one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A word about the word <em>plastic<\/em>, which is layered with connotations, none of which (like plastic itself) has ever gone away. First, it was this strange new hardened-chemical product. Then it was a shiny durable miracle. Then, in the \u201960s, it became a grand metaphor \u2014 for the fake quality of our lives, and for the greedy corporate culture that packaged it. That was the \u201cPlastics\u201d of \u201cThe Graduate,\u201d and the introduction of the notion that a middle-class rebel like Dustin Hoffman\u2019s Ben could \u201creject\u201d the world of plastic. Norman Mailer wrote many eloquent passages about plastic: what it looked and smelled like, what it was doing to our souls and our bodies. Mailer would have watched a movie like \u201cPlastic People\u201d and said, \u201cYeah, I told you that 60 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    If Mailer was the cautionary bard of the New Plastic America, the bard of \u201cPlastic People\u201d is Rick Smith, the Canadian environmentalist and author of \u201cSlow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health.\u201d \u201cMicroplastics,\u201d he says in the movie, \u201care possibly the most serious type of pollutant our society has ever created. These invisible particles have been found on the highest mountains, in the deepest ocean sediments. And now, we\u2019re finding microplastics wherever we look in the human body. And once these tiny particles are in our bodies, they\u2019re oozing their toxic ingredients on a minute-by-minute basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Every molecule of plastic that has ever been created still exists somewhere on earth. It doesn\u2019t disappear. It just goes from being larger to smaller and smaller. The conversion of oil into polymers has helped contribute to global warming, but the oil companies, knowing they\u2019re facing a world that uses less and less fossil fuels, are looking for a way to sustain their profits. So they have a motivation, says Smith, to \u201cincrease the plasticization of human life.\u201d That, he says, \u201cis where the oil is going to go.\u201d Oil companies are talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ling the production of plastic over the next few decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    You probably, like me, know some of this already. But one of the great values of a documentary like \u201cPlastic People\u201d is that it takes an issue you think you\u2019ve grasped and colors it in. It takes your scattershot information and fuses it into a fuller vision \u2014\u00a0of the past, and the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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