Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again
Autor Lucy Siegleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 dec 2018
Remarcăm, analizând datele furnizate de rapoartele de mediu și statisticile de consum din Marea Britanie, că volumul Turning the Tide on Plastic semnat de Lucy Siegle se constituie ca un manual esențial pentru înțelegerea crizei globale a polimerilor sintetici. Într-un context în care aproximativ 38,5 milioane de sticle de plastic sunt folosite zilnic doar în Regatul Unit, autoarea propune o trecere de la starea de revoltă pasivă la acțiune civică și personală informată. Subliniem rigoarea jurnalistică cu care Siegle, expertă în stil de viață ecologic, traduce cifrele abstracte în strategii aplicabile, precum abordarea „reduce, rethink, refill, refuse”.
Din perspectiva structurii narative, lucrarea nu se limitează la expunerea dezastrului ecologic — estimarea că până în 2050 plasticul va depăși numeric populația de pești din oceane — ci oferă un set de instrumente pentru influențarea comunităților locale. Notăm cu interes cum această lucrare extinde cadrul propus de How to Give Up Plastic de Will McCallum cu date noi privind impactul sistemic al microplasticelor și responsabilitatea autorităților. În timp ce volumul lui McCallum se concentrează pe schimbări domestice punctuale, Siegle integrează o perspectivă mai largă asupra puterii de influențare a consumatorului în spațiul public.
Poziționarea cărții în cadrul operei autoarei relevă o continuitate tematică necesară; dacă în To Die For, Lucy Siegle investiga industria modei și costul uman al consumerismului, aici își îndreaptă atenția către materialitatea deșeurilor noastre zilnice. Turning the Tide on Plastic reprezintă astfel o evoluție firească a discursului său etic, mutând accentul de pe critica industriei textile pe soluționarea pandemiei de plastic prin schimbări de paradigmă în consumul individual și colectiv.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1409182991
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
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Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este o resursă fundamentală pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă mecanismele poluării cu plastic și să acționeze concret. Cititorul câștigă o strategie clară de reducere a consumului propriu și argumente solide pentru a cere schimbări la nivel de retail și politici publice. Este recomandată studenților, profesioniștilor din domeniul sustenabilității și oricărui cetățean preocupat de moștenirea ecologică lăsată generațiilor viitoare.
Descriere
More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year
300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year
An estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans
38.5 million plastic bottles are used every day in the UK
A million plastic bottles are used per minute around the world
500 million plastic straws are used per year
Without big action, at the current rate, pieces of plastic will outnumber fish in the ocean by 2050. That is the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren.
Plastic flows into our lives from every direction and most of it is not recycled. Instead it is incinerated or ends up in landfill, where it will sit for hundreds of years, or enters the world's seas where it fragments into tiny pieces to become microplastics - the environmental scourge of our times.
Many of us had assumed that governments, brands and waste authorities were dealing with plastic on our behalf. But the impact of shows such as Blue Planet along with national beach cleans and high-profile campaigns have resulted in a collective wake-up call. If there were plans and strategies, they have not worked as we imagined. It would be easy to feel despondent but instead we need to turn our anger and emotion into action, starting by making a big dent in our own enormous consumption.
Turning the tide on Plastic is here just in time. Journalist, broadcaster and eco lifestyle expert Lucy Siegle provides a powerful call to arms to end the plastic pandemic along with the tools we need to make decisive change. It is a clear-eyed, authoritative and accessible guide to help us to take decisive and effective personal action.
Because this matters. When it comes to single-use plastics, we are habitual users, reaching out for plastic water bottles, disposable coffee cups, plastic straws and carrier bags multiple times a day. If only 12 of us adopt Lucy's 'reduce, rethink, refill, refuse' approach, we could potentially ditch 3K-15K single items of plastic in a year. When we consider our power as influencers - whether at school, the hairdressers, at work or on the bus - we suddenly become part of something significant.
So now is the time to speak up, take action and demand the change you want to see in the ocean, in the supermarket aisles and on the streets. It's time to turn the tide on plastic, and this book will show you how.
Recenzii
'It is a great gift to be able to take a difficult and technical subject and turn it into a conversation with a friend that really stimulates you. Congratulations then to Lucy Siegle ...where most books on the environment blend the whiff of cordite with the style of Old Testament prophet. This book is special because it genuinely addresses the genius and threat of plastic and suggests solutions along the way. Most of all it is written in such a way as makes you want to read it rather than suffer through it. Intelligent, witty, passionate and serious of intent. This is a gem of a book- a primer and a call to action that will genuinely drive change.' SIR TIM SMIT, co-founder of the Eden Project
'Feisty, excellent journalism, as you'd expect from Lucy Siegle, but also great practical ways we can all kick the plastic habit and start turning the tide. A must-buy, must-read book' KATE HUMBLE
'Lucy Siegle turned the tide on the fashion pandemic in her last book. Now she turns her attention and brings her authority to bear on plastic, the environmental struggle of our age'. LIVIA FIRTH, UN Leader of Change and Founder of Eco Age Ltd.
'Turning the Tide on Plastic is great, providing not just a cracking analysis of how we've let the plastics monster trash our planet, but a step-by-step guide on what we can do to start putting things right.' JONATHON PORRITT, Founder, Forum for the Future
'Long before plastic pollution rose to the top of the public's consciousness, Lucy was a constant voice asking difficult questions and demanding answers on behalf of all of us. This excellent book tells the heartbreaking truth about the scale of the problem. It is a heroic wake-up call for everyone to take action, for the sake of future generations. I hope it will be part of the sea change our planet needs.' RICHARD WALKER, CEO Iceland
'Turning The Tide on Plastic suggests simple and practical ways in which each one of us can help to reduce the use of plastic. I urge everyone to read it and take action.' DR JANE GOODALL DBE, world-leading primatologist and anthropologist
An impassioned and highly practical account of how to reduce our plastic consumption.
Informative
[An] eye-opening manifesto...This is THE guide on how to turn the tide on plastic.
A clear-sighted and immensely useful overview of the problems caused by plastic and the potential solutions.