Waste Wars
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A riveting investigation into the dark underbelly of the global
trash trade - a dirty, multi-billion-dollar industry that almost no
one knows exists. The total mass of the world's manmade materials
has recently come to equal the entire biomass of the earth. This
means we are living in a world where man's ability to create
garbage, or eventual garbage, has surpassed the earth's ability to
create life.Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing,
and disputes about what to do with the tons of garbage generated
every day have given rise to waste wars waged in just about every
country on earth. Some are border skirmishes, fought to move trash
out of one place and dump it into another. Others are waged across
thousands of miles.But no matter the scale, one thing is true about
almost all of them: few people have any idea they're happening. For
every story about how a commodity gets hustled through world supply
chains for consumption, there exists another untold story about how
it gets discarded for renewal - or for eternity. Some trash gets
tossed onto roadsides.Some gets burned for fuel. Some gets buried
underground. But most of it lives a hot potato second life, getting
bartered, sold, re-sold, smuggled, salvaged, re-purposed from one
country or mafia or corporationto another, with devastating
consequences for millions of people.Waste Wars tells the stories of
five trash conflicts being waged in different corners of the world
right now. They are representative but rich strands in the story of
our planet's runaway garbage pandemic. In each theater, a different
commodity is being smuggled or imported or bartered.Sometimes there
is a winner, sometimes there is a loser. And in each theater a
different political dilemma - from global inequality to the
pitfalls of green politics - is presenting itself through the
seemingly pedestrian medium of trash. A globe-trotting work of
relentless investigative reporting, Waste Wars exposes the
multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade in which almost everyone
in the world unknowingly engages and asks: If the handling of its
trash reveals deeper truths about a particular society, what does
the global business of trash say about our world today?
Výber kníh autorov
John Murray Press ,
Alexander Clapp
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John Murray Press,
Alexander Clapp
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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