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“One of these executives from one of the Gulf-based companies started talking about how people get very emotional when they talk about plastics and some of the activists at the treaty negotiations are very negative and they're twisting recycling into a negative. And he basically called out to the audience of industry representatives: 'We need your help. We need legal assistance. We need policy research papers. We need scientific research papers to make our case at these negotiations.'”
This quote exposes the industry's strategy to counter environmental activism by framing it as 'emotional' and 'negative,' while mobilizing resources to influence policy debates.
Ken Tucker
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