Hey just really quick before we get into today's episode I wanted to let you know that I'm running a limited edition plush with makeshift and this time it's Casper.

So if you want to grab your own Casper, make sure you get him before he's gone.

There's only like 19 days left.

It is a limited run and he's not coming back.

Make sure you go to makeshift.com slash products slash Casper-longboy-ash Plush or just click the link in the

description box. Some people have a deep abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country.

And some people don't.

People start pollution.

People can stop it.

Since the end of the 1970s, most people have been convinced that stopping climate change was something everyone was responsible for.

Not the corporations or a select few, but everybody.

Slowly but surely, people became obsessed with doing their part.

As advertisements came rolling down saying things like people started pollution

people can stop it. Most people began making changes to their everyday lives

in order to make the world a better place. First there was recycling. As you

stroll through the grocery store you look at the bottom of every plastic item plastered on the shelves.

Those little arrows that all of us have come to know indicated that this item was safe to be recycled,

or at least most of us thought. But that's great. All of a sudden you feel like you're doing your part. You drink your milk and soda, eat your candy out of a little plastic container and feel vindicated knowing that as long as you put it back in your little green bin

you're doing what's necessary to slow climate change. But what if I told you most of that was a lie? Sure, some things are recyclable, but not nearly as much as you would think.

To make matters even worse is that the industries who came up with this recycling plan knew this.

In fact, recycling was all one big advertisement

campaign promoted primarily by the plastic industry for one reason and one

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