"The solution to some kind of environmental damage was simply externalized to somewhere else. It was shifted basically to the global south."

Phthalate exposure is just one way the plastics industry externalizes harms.

Research has long suggested a link between mothers' mental health during pregnancy and children's externalizing behaviors.

“Boeing has gleaned billions of dollars in profits over the past several decades partly through externalizing its waste disposal costs by dumping wastes into the Lower Duwamish River,” the Port said in its claim.

For Rodrigo, music is a vehicle for “expressing those feelings that are really hard to externalize, or that you feel aren’t societally acceptable to externalize,” she told the New York Times.