What we learned this week

“The fossil fuel industry is facing an existential threat”, says DW.com, and plastic is a lifeline. An imaginatively presented graphical feature on plastics and fossil fuels.

“42 years ago, people would laugh at you and say, ‘Well, there’s no such thing as environmental racism. And there’s no thing as environmental injustice'” – Robert Bullard on the slow acceptance of environmental justice. “We’ve made progress” he adds, “but there’s still a lack of understanding of these issues.”

Greenp...