Invisible Hands: American Hypocrisy, Global Consumer Complicity and Actions for a Better Future

Shawna Hanel, Boise State University

Abstract

Invisible Hands follows the flow of oil, through a terrain afflicted by the overwhelming production and consumption of superfluous goods. At the end of this viscous river, one finds in our invisible hands, a planet littered with petroleum by-products, the ubiquitous plastics our world is awash with.