Geography Is Everything

Part 1: What If Plastic Was Never Invented?

Feb 22, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
What if Geography?
01:31 • 2min
3
What if Plastic Had Never Been Invented?
03:04 • 2min
4
What if Geography Here the Podcast
05:06 • 2min
5
What if Plastic Had Never Been Invented?
07:09 • 2min
6
What's the Meaning of the Word Plastic?
08:40 • 2min
7
Plastics - Not Our Job, It's Theirs
10:14 • 2min
8
What Is a Polymer?
11:55 • 3min
9
The Three Most Commonly Produced Plastics
14:31 • 2min
10
What Are the Motivations for Innovating?
16:41 • 3min
11
The History of Plastics
19:22 • 2min
12
Synthetic Plastics - The First Human-Made Plastic
21:32 • 2min
13
Celluloid
23:20 • 2min
14
What if Plastic Had Never Been Invented?
25:07 • 2min
15
What's the Pattern of New Technology?
27:30 • 2min
16
Teflon - The First True Plastic
29:06 • 3min
17
Becholite - Thermoplastics Can't Be Melted Down
32:10 • 5min
18
Plastics During World War II
36:56 • 2min
19
Would There Be an Atom Bomb Without Plastics?
38:45 • 2min
20
Is Teflon Nonstick?
40:45 • 2min
21
Tupperware 1948 - 1950
42:19 • 2min
22
Plastic Bags
43:56 • 3min
23
Plastics Are Bad or Plastics Don't Go Away?
46:45 • 2min
24
The Plastic Waves in the Oceans, Right?
48:35 • 2min
25
Is There a Clean Air Act?
50:25 • 3min
26
Plastic Is Just Not the Time to File Fuel
52:57 • 2min
27
What if Plastics Don't Exist?
54:44 • 2min