Plastics, as we know them today, are synthetic, malleable polymers derived predominantly from petrochemicals. Plastic polymers are fascinating. They are incredibly versatile and useful in modern life, but what makes them so beneficial can also damage people and the environment when handled incorrectly. We must understand plastics to eliminate their harmful effects while we harness their strengt…
Water will undoubtedly become an ever more crucial locus of academic reflection, as Christiana Peppard’s concern that “wars of the future will be fought over water, not oil” (2014) stresses. Increasing water shortages worldwide and global warming of water, in particular the salt water of the oceans, beg further reflection, from natural and agricultural sciences, the legal field, and also …