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Podcast: The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Episode: The Plastic Crisis: A Health and Environmental Emergency | Reality Roundtable 15
Description: (Conversation recorded on January 21st, 2025) Many of us are familiar with the problem of plastics as a distant issue in the ocean, primarily affecting fish and sea turtles. While these environmental effects are critical, the full scope of plastic's repercussions on human health and well-being is largely unknown by most people, even as the research shows alarming – and growing – adverse effects. What do we need to know about this pervasive material and how it affects the human body? Today, Nate is joined by environmental health researchers Leo Trasande and Linda Birnbaum, as well as environmental poli...