Phaedra C. Pezzullo is Associate Professor of Communication, Media Studies, Environmental Studies, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of multiple books, including Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice. She is a founding codirector of the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change.

• ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: Care amid Oceans of Trouble 1. #ThereIsNoAway: Carbon-Heavy Masculinity and the Life/Death Cycle of Plastics 2. Have a Coke and a #FootprintCalculator: The Myth of Recycling and Transnational Greenwashing 3. From #BanPlasticsKE to #ISupportBanPlasticsKE: Pissed Off Online, Picturing Participation, and Policing Pollution in Kenya 4. Engaging #StrawlessInSeattle and #StopSucking: The Loneliest Whale, Sporting Fun, and American Exceptionalism 5. #SuckItAbleism Intervenes: Eco-normative Shaming, Voicing Justice, and Planetary Fatalism 6. Creating #ToiChonCa (#IChooseFish): Trauma, Affective Art, and Big Tech Dominance Conclusion: #BreakFree(FromPlastics) Notes Bibliography Index

“Pezzullo’s accessible writing, punctuated  by  moments  of  humor  and  parenthetical  asides,  makes  the  book  accessible  for  activists, educators, and general readers alike. Above all, this is a book that will make readers second-guess taking plastics for granted, prompting a deeper reckoning with how our plastic use is ‘structured by and structure our collective lives’ (p. 1).”

Phaedra C. Pezzullo is Associate Professor of Communication, Media Studies, Environmental Studies, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of multiple books, including Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice. She is a founding codirector of the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change.

• ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: Care amid Oceans of Trouble 1. #ThereIsNoAway: Carbon-Heavy Masculinity and the Life/Death Cycle of Plastics 2. Have a Coke and a #FootprintCalculator: The Myth of Recycling and Transnational Greenwashing 3. From #BanPlasticsKE to #ISupportBanPlasticsKE: Pissed Off Online, Picturing Participation, and Policing Pollution in Kenya 4. Engaging #StrawlessInSeattle and #StopSucking: The Loneliest Whale, Sporting Fun, and American Exceptionalism 5. #SuckItAbleism Intervenes: Eco-normative Shaming, Voicing Justice, and Planetary Fatalism 6. Creating #ToiChonCa (#IChooseFish): Trauma, Affective Art, and Big Tech Dominance Conclusion: #BreakFree(FromPlastics) Notes Bibliography Index

“Pezzullo’s accessible writing, punctuated  by  moments  of  humor  and  parenthetical  asides,  makes  the  book  accessible  for  activists, educators, and general readers alike. Above all, this is a book that will make readers second-guess taking plastics for granted, prompting a deeper reckoning with how our plastic use is ‘structured by and structure our collective lives’ (p. 1).”

Phaedra C. Pezzullo is Associate Professor of Communication, Media Studies, Environmental Studies, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of multiple books, including Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice. She is a founding codirector of the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change.

• ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: Care amid Oceans of Trouble 1. #ThereIsNoAway: Carbon-Heavy Masculinity and the Life/Death Cycle of Plastics 2. Have a Coke and a #FootprintCalculator: The Myth of Recycling and Transnational Greenwashing 3. From #BanPlasticsKE to #ISupportBanPlasticsKE: Pissed Off Online, Picturing Participation, and Policing Pollution in Kenya 4. Engaging #StrawlessInSeattle and #StopSucking: The Loneliest Whale, Sporting Fun, and American Exceptionalism 5. #SuckItAbleism Intervenes: Eco-normative Shaming, Voicing Justice, and Planetary Fatalism 6. Creating #ToiChonCa (#IChooseFish): Trauma, Affective Art, and Big Tech Dominance Conclusion: #BreakFree(FromPlastics) Notes Bibliography Index

“Pezzullo’s accessible writing, punctuated  by  moments  of  humor  and  parenthetical  asides,  makes  the  book  accessible  for  activists, educators, and general readers alike. Above all, this is a book that will make readers second-guess taking plastics for granted, prompting a deeper reckoning with how our plastic use is ‘structured by and structure our collective lives’ (p. 1).”