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Part One: Ellen Airheart is a science writer, and we speak to hear about her recent piece at Wired: “China Won’t Solve the World’s Plastics Problem Anymore.” What happens now that China has stopped being the world’s dumping ground?
Part Two: We speak with Professor Emily Robertson, co-author of “The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools.” We’re bad at having debates, we don’t know how to disagree. One reason is that topics considered inflammatory outside of schools are avoided inside schools. To prepare students to be citizens, we need to lean how to respectfully disagree.
