An Ocean Plastics Field trip for Corporate Executives

In “An Ocean Plastics Field Trip for Corporate Executives” the author, Rowan Jacobsen, uses chronology and imagery in order to demonstrate the impacts of pollution and plastic waste in our oceans. He also invites the company executives, along with the reader, to change their daily plastic usage. The story is happening over the course of a few days, where the author and company executives take a ship to the sea. The use of the chronology lets us see the evolution of the mentality of corporate executives. During the first days, the group is shown polluted islands and waters. They discover how…