Plastic Free: Considering the Future

Even though my zero plastic challenge was ostensibly about sacrifice — giving up plastic — it was really about envisioning the future.
I think a lot about the future.
When I was a teenager, I read every dystopian novel I could get my hands on. This was before Hunger Games and the recent influx of YA dystopian novels. I read Aldous Huxley (including his weird novel about…