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 Divest- move investments, bank accounts, and pension funds away from banks and institutions that finance, invest in, or fund more climate chaos.  Also, sell  shares and bonds of fossil fuel companies.

  investing in climate chaos   23 biggest institutions holding bonds and shares of stocks in investors (banks and financial services companies )  in oil, gas, and coal companies.

https://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org Banks  Financing Fossil Fuel projects- Raising capital for Oil, Gas, and Coal companies, pipelines and projects by lending money and/or underwriting loans, debt (bonds) equity (stocks),  or by providing insurance.

More toxic chemicals are released during plastics recycling.  And loil cos. push more plastics and recycling in order to develop a demand for more oil to pro duce plastics. They do this , in case demand for oil falls. New Yorker article june 26,2023 by Elizabeth Kolbert.  

https://youtu.be/yZCFDclgDJM. from an August 2023 memorial

Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System Hardcover – February 16, 2021
by Judge Jed S. Rakoff (Author)
  This judge frequently writes in the NY Review of Books about problems in the justice system.
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A senior federal judge’s incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that define the judiciary today, Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free features essays examining why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren’t prosecuted, why you won’t get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power.

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/book-reviews-plastic-waste

Plastic recycling is greenwashing.  Plastics are part of the oil industry, and oil companies fear decreased demand for oil, so they are building more factories to make more plastic out of oil.