One of the Biggies, Ambivalence
What's Going to Wreck Our World? (If we are not careful) The Plasticocalypse? No, AMBIVALENCE! (Heres an example) Shell Oil is spending huge ($10 billion) on a giant plant outside of Pittsburg to make Polyethelene Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! To make a lot more of this..... The Shell plant will turn 1.6 billion gallons of ethane into 3.3 billion pounds of little white polyethylene beads. Annually. Sounds (and looks) gross. But the ambivalence sets in with: "More than 6,000 tradespeople and laborers will be on the site during the peak summer construction period. Some 600 full-time workers will manage automated technology to operate the completed plant. A 97-mile pipeline from gas separation installations in Ohio and West Virginia will supply ethane; a 250-megawatt gas-fired electrical generating station will power the plant." Manufacturing on the rebound in America! Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson... Think ab...