Foreverland

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Before the Mold
2. Chapter Two - The Alchemy of Fake
3. Chapter Three - War’s Favorite Material
4. Chapter Four - The Age of Convenience
5. Chapter Five - Oil’s Silent Partner
6. Chapter Six - Shaping Taste
7. Chapter Seven - Plastic Dreams
8. Chapter Eight - The Disappearance Illusion
9. Chapter Nine - Microplastic Humans
10. Chapter Ten - Plastic Power
11. Chapter Eleven - Living in the Simulation
12. Chapter Twelve - The Age After Plastic

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Before the Mold OKAY, SO PICTURE this: it’s a few hundred years ago. You want a chair? You carve that sucker out of wood. Need a bowl? Clay. A cup? Maybe glass, if you’re feeling fancy. A sword? Metal, if you can afford a guy who knows how to beat rocks into murder. Everything came straight from raw, natural stuff. You could point at a tree and say, “That’s gonna be my dinner table.” There was a straight line from nature to thing. It wasn’t convenient, but it made sense. Those materials had personalities. Wood warped. Clay cracked. Glass shattered if you sneezed too hard. Metal? Great stuff. But rust never sleeps. Still, it worked. Humans made do. We built whole civilizations...