Saving the Planet from Plastics
Jayati Ghosh
explains why recycling alone is not enough to mitigate the health and climate effects of overproduction.
Our Contributors
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a former NATO secretary-general (2009-14) and former prime minister of Denmark, is Founder of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation.
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Erik Berglöf is Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
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Kevin P. Gallagher is Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University and Director of the Boston University Global Development Policy Center.
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Simon Zadek is Co-CEO of NatureFinance.
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Martín Guzmán, a former minister of economy of Argentina, is a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
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Hugo Drochon, Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Nottingham, is the author of Nietzsche’s Great Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016).
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Soumya Swaminathan, a former chief scientist of the World Health Organization, is Co-Chair of Our Common Air and Principal Adviser for the National Tuberculosis Elimination Program at India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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Helen Mountford is President and CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation.
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Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spear-headed the movement against China’s one-child policy and is the author of Big Country with an Empty Nest (China Development Press, 2013), which went from being banned in China to ranking first in China Publishing Today’s 100 Best Books of 2013 in China.
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Marcelo Mena, CEO of Global Methane Hub, is a former Chilean minister of the environment.
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Sherri Goodman, Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security, is a senior fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute and the author of Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security (Island Press, 2024).
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Christa Hasenkopf is Director of the Clean Air Program at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago and a commissioner at Our Common Air.
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Rana Hendy is Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo.
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Lobna Shaheen is a Master of Public Policy candidate at the American University in Cairo.
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Adam Nelson is Senior Program Director for the Asia-Pacific at the National Democratic Institute.
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Kristen Sample is Director of the National Democratic Institute’s Democratic Governance team.
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Marilou Uy, former director of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G24), is a non-resident senior fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center.
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Andriy Yermak is Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
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Jess Ayers is CEO of Quadrature Climate Foundation.
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Sarah Ann Smith is Energy Program Director at Global Methane Hub.
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