© 2024 WKNO FM
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

How Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism | Origins

WKNO | By Savannah Smith
Published November 5, 2022 at 5:45 AM CDT

Rubber is an extremely important part of modern living, from tires to clothes to building materials to adhesives. And though we don’t often think of it in the same league as oil or cotton, industrialization drove the demand for rubber drove into intense competition between world powers hell bent on imperial expansion.
Tags
Origins | PBS Specials
Savannah Smith
See stories by Savannah Smith