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“The desire we often have to fix pollution is, ‘Okay, here’s the recycling bin, and that will take our plastic away.’ Plastic never leaves. It never degrades. Every time we make plastic, we are committing to that plastic existing on our planet for the rest of time, effectively. Max’s work really shows the naivete of how we think about pollution and how the first solutions that we so often come up with, especially in Western science narratives, are always, ‘Let’s get it out of our context and put it somewhere else.’…Despite these very heavy messages, Max also manages to be very light…I try to put this book into the hands of pretty much everyone I know.” Read more...
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Kate Clancy, Anthropologist
“Pollution is Colonialism explains how the pollution and plastics that Liboiron and colleagues study doesn’t begin in a factory or even within industrial systems. Rather, as Liboiron lays out, the ultimate source of pollution is the violent and ongoing colonial systems of land relations on which Indigenous land was presumed available for the extraction of so-called resources and industrial feedstocks; for the construction of factories; and for the presumed assimilation and storage of wastes.” Read more...
