{"product_id":"the-plastic-problem","title":"The Plastic Problem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Human beings are an amazingly inventive species in creating technologies that have taken us far beyond planetary boundaries that constrain all other animals. Whether its very powerful innovations like pesticides  antibiotics or combustion engines  we fail to consider the long-term ramifications of our enterprises in a world where everything is interconnected. Plastics are a classic example  created by chemists from complex molecules of life in fossil fuels  applied in so many useful ways but ignoring what happens when the products are discarded as waste on such a scale that we have a gargantuan problem. The story of plastic is a cautionary tale about every aspect of the way we are living in the Anthropocene.\" -- David Suzuki The shocking truth of plastics impact on our planet -- and what we can do about it. The data is in and its bad. We create and throw away too much plastic  and it is killing our planet. However  too many people have very little idea about just how far this problem reaches  and those who do know feel helpless with the enormity of the task at hand. To fill this void and provide some hope is Rachel Salts simple and transformative book  The Plastic Problem. As a producer for the award-winning and wildly popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE  Salt is accustomed to taking big  complicated concepts and translating them into entertaining and easy-to-understand segments. She applies the same methodology to The Plastic Problem. The result is a critically important book that will change the lives of those who read it. Never before has the problem been presented in such an impactful way. Readers of any age will emerge from this book with a thorough understanding of the problem  its individual and global impacts  and -- most importantly -- hope for the future. In 18 bite-sized chapters  Salt walks readers through the invention and globalized creation of plastic  its impacts and uses in our day-today lives  and its importance to the larger global economy. She then examines the how and why of what makes plastic so harmful to our planet and  just in case there was any doubt  Salt reinforces this danger by providing chapters on the planet-choking results of our plastic habit -- including the fact that there is almost certainly  plastic floating inside each and every person in the world. Salt finishes this vital book with a message of hope. All is not lost. We can make changes -- both at home and on a global scale. Big changes are already happening. If you want to be an actor and help change the future  The Plastic Problem is the best place to start. \"Plastic kills. Breaking our plastic addiction is a matter of survival for humans and it impacts every creature on Earth to the deepest part of the ocean. With clear  concise prose and illustrations  The Plastic Problem navigates a way through this plastic mess weve found ourselves in.\" -- Erich Hoyt  author of Encyclopedia of Whales  Dolphins and Porpoises  Orca: The Whale Called Killer and Creatures of the Deep; Research Fellow  Whale and Dolphin Conservation; Co-chair  IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985194807349,"sku":"ByrdShop_0228102235","price":28.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780228102236.jpg?v=1770851609","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-plastic-problem","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}