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by nfhshy68 1409 days ago
I don't think people understand just how much stuff in our daily lives is petrochemicals.

Further, I don't think the quite grasp the scale difference between what we used to have made out of alternatives and what we now make out of plastics.

It's not a question of switching to glass, wood and metal, there simply isn't enough of those resources in the world to support however many billion were up to now.

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