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The Sea - Laurie Taylor explores the privatisation of our oceans and the threat of plastic pollution.

The Sea – Laurie Taylor explores the privatisation of our oceans and the threat of plastic pollution. He gets into deep waters with Guy Standing, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London, and author of new study which argues that exploitation and extraction now drive all aspects of the ocean economy, destroying communities, intensifying inequalities, and driving fish populations and other ocean life towards extinction. How can we rescue the economy of the sea? Alice Mah, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick discusses her recent work on the escalating plastics crisis. Even as public outrage has been prompted by viral imagines of choking marine wildlife, the demand for plastics continues to rise. Is it unstoppable?

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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29 minutes

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Mon 19 Sep 2022 00:15

Guests and Further Reading

TheÌýBlue Commons:ÌýRescuing the Economy of the SeaÌý(Penguin Books)

Guy Standing is a headline speaker at HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London on 1st-2nd October 2022:


Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It (Polity Press)


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  • Wed 14 Sep 2022 16:00
  • Mon 19 Sep 2022 00:15

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