What is the relationship between decarbonization and plastic production? How does this relationship manifest materially? Analyzing Formosa Plastics Petrochemicals and Green Tech
Transnational Alliances: What current efforts exist to communicate or collaborate with overseas communities to achieve environmental justice, and are they effective? Analyzing EJ Alliances Analyzing Formosa Plastics
Transnational Alliances: What barriers (logistical, cultural, historical, imagined) may limit the creation of international activist alliances against Formosa Plastics Group? Analyzing EJ Alliances Analyzing Formosa Plastics
Transnational Alliances: How do advocates opposing Formosa Plastics Group understand/conceptualize overseas counterparts? Analyzing EJ Alliances Analyzing Formosa Plastics
TECHNO: What industries & infrastructure have produced Formosa Plastics’ operations & environmental harm in this setting? What infrastructure has been built in response? How, for example, has energy transition and climate change adaptation been pursued? Analyzing Formosa Plastics
GEO: How has intensive human activity marked, transmuted, destabilized and harmed this Formosa community? What levels of lead and other metals are in the soil? Where is hazardous waste stored? Analyzing Formosa Plastics
ECO-ATMO: What ecosystems in this setting does Formosa Plastics depend on, protect, or compromise, and how is this recognized (or not)? How are global warming and other atmospheric currents stressing local landscapes? Analyzing Formosa Plastics
DATA: What data infrastructure supports recognition, characterization and response to Formosa Plastics in this setting? Who has access to relevant data and sense-making tools? Analyzing Formosa Plastics
EXDU: Who is imagining and planning for Formosa Plastics’ futures in this setting, with what modes of expertise, cut by what vested interests? What educational programs – environmental, civic, media, STEM and so on – are addressing Formosa Plastics? Analyzing Formosa Plastics
