Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Put on your best polyester pants, grab a bunch of gleaming mylar balloons, and crack open a case of bottled water. In today's episode, we're entering the plastic world of plastic pollution in all its glorious plasticity. We're on the hunt for microplastics – and we won’t have to go very far, as they're present everywhere – in the soil, in the water, in the air, and in our bodies. We'll be looking for systemic solutions and talking with Matt Simon, author of the book A Poison Like No Other.
Originally recorded on 7/10/25. Visit Crazy Town (resilience.org/crazy-town-podcast/) on the web.
Sources/Links/Notes:
• Matt Simon, A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies (islandpress.org/books/poison-no-other#desc) , Island Press, October 27, 2022.
• Katie Okamoto, "Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here’s How to Avoid Eating Them. (nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/how-to-avoid-eating-microplastics/) " New York Times, April 21, 2025.
• Ocean Cleanup (theoceancleanup.com/) (large organization with a popular, but frustrating, ecomodernist approach to plastic pollution).
• Jen Fela, "Global Plastics Treaty Delayed, but Not Defeated (earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/global-plastics-treaty-delayed-but-not-defeated) ," Earth Island Journal, December 11, 2024.
Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:
• Episode 84 (resilience.org/stories/2024-04-17/crazy-town-episode-84-escaping-technologyism/) , "Escaping Technologyism"
Support the show (postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/)
Put on your best polyester pants, grab a bunch of gleaming mylar balloons, and crack open a case of bottled water. In today's episode, we're entering the plastic world of plastic pollution in all its glorious plasticity. We're on the hunt for microplastics – and we won’t have to go very far, as they're present everywhere – in the soil, in the water, in the air, and in our bodies. We'll be looking for systemic solutions and talking with Matt Simon, author of the book A Poison Like No Other.
Originally recorded on 7/10/25. Visit Crazy Town (resilience.org/crazy-town-podcast/) on the web.
Sources/Links/Notes:
• Matt Simon, A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies (islandpress.org/books/poison-no-other#desc) , Island Press, October 27, 2022.
• Katie Okamoto, "Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here’s How to Avoid Eating Them. (nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/how-to-avoid-eating-microplastics/) " New York Times, April 21, 2025.
• Ocean Cleanup (theoceancleanup.com/) (large organization with a popular, but frustrating, ecomodernist approach to plastic pollution).
• Jen Fela, "Global Plastics Treaty Delayed, but Not Defeated (earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/global-plastics-treaty-delayed-but-not-defeated) ," Earth Island Journal, December 11, 2024.
Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:
• Episode 84 (resilience.org/stories/2024-04-17/crazy-town-episode-84-escaping-technologyism/) , "Escaping Technologyism"
Support the show (postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/)
