Seems crazy pessimistic. We could use HUGELY less plastic without a major impact. Start with clothes, get rid of all nylon, polyester, and plastic based mater

Seems crazy pessimistic. We could use HUGELY less plastic without a major impact. Start with clothes, get rid of all nylon, polyester, and plastic based materials. World changing? Hardly. Get rid of plastic forks, spoons, knives, and straws... again no big deal. Get rid of plastic used in food. Milk jugs, processed food, tv dinners, plastic bags of lemons/potatoes/etc. Kill off water bottles (which are a waste anyways), soda packages in plastic, cheap boxed wine, etc. Sure there's some harder things, like say fertilizer, car interiors, toys, keyboards, mice, watches, network cables, etc. But still we could hugely reduce are use of oil. Sadly the world was just starting to move away from oil a bit, then USA went from a large oil importer, to a huge exporter and the prices dropped.