Ever stop to think about all the products you've come to depend on that are made of plastic? It's pretty disturbing when you consider that plastic is almost always made of petroleum, and that the energy used to transport the petroleum and create the final product was almost certainly from fossil fuels.
Imagine trying to live without the following items:

• television
• computer and monitor
• cell phone
• portable music player
• credit cards
• toothbrush
• refrigerator
• plastic wrap
• etc.

It has already begun, poor people getting poorer because economies are shifting away from unsustainable and injurious manufacturing. 20,000 people losing their jobs seems insane right now, but it may seem like nothing ten years from now. Here are some sickening numbers:

"Chinese people use up to 3 billion plastic bags a day and the country has to refine 5 million tonnes (37 million barrels) of crude oil every year to make plastics used for packaging."