Part 1: What If Plastic Was Never Invented?
Geography Is Everything
The History of Plastics
Most people would say plastic is a 20th century technology, not a 19th century. We really do need to go into the 1800s to really understand the trajectory of what became the fully synthetic plastics that we know today. The rise of a consumer society industrialization means that people don't have to know how to make a lot of stuff necessarily because it's mass produced.
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