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Waste Wars - Dirty Deals, International Rivalries Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish

Anglais · Livre Broché

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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 corporation to 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? ...

Détails du produit

Auteurs Alexander Clapp
Edition John Murray
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre Broché
Sortie 27.02.2025
 
EAN 9781399803137
ISBN 978-1-399-80313-7
Pages 390
Dimensions 152 mm x 233 mm x 28 mm
Catégories Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Politique

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management, Environmental policy & protocols, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Environmental policy and protocols

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