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Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters de Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters

Autor Oliver Franklin-Wallis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2023

În această ediție actualizată în format paperback a volumului Wasteland, apreciem rigoarea cu care Oliver Franklin-Wallis demontează mitul locului numit „departe” atunci când aruncăm ceva la gunoi. Ne-a atras atenția structura narativă care transformă o temă aridă de sociologie într-o călătorie geografică și morală, de la canalizările supraîncărcate ale Marii Britanii până la munții de reziduuri electronice din India. Autorul aduce în prim-plan capitole esențiale despre mecanismele de greenwashing ale marilor corporații, explicând cum industria reciclării a fost, în multe cazuri, un paravan pentru continuarea consumului excesiv.

Considerăm că Wasteland este o alternativă necesară la Waste: The Basics de Myra J. Hird pentru cursurile de sociologie ambientală și sustenabilitate. În timp ce volumul din seria „The Basics” oferă un cadru teoretic și academic, Wasteland are avantajul unui reportaj imersiv, oferind chipuri umane și povești concrete crizei globale. De asemenea, spre deosebire de Secondhand de Adam Minter, care se concentrează pe piața bunurilor refolosite, lucrarea lui Franklin-Wallis extinde perspectiva către deșeurile industriale și moștenirea toxică a energiei nucleare, oferind o imagine de ansamblu mai sumbră, dar necesară.

Stilul este precis și lipsit de eufemisme, jurnalistul evitând soluțiile simpliste. Ritmul este alert, susținut de date tehnice traduse într-un limbaj accesibil, ceea ce face din această carte o resursă valoroasă atât pentru specialiștii în politici publice, cât și pentru cititorul preocupat de amprenta ecologică a propriului stil de viață.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781398527706
ISBN-10: 139852770X
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:Export/Airside
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster UK

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Despre autor

Oliver Franklin-Wallis este un jurnalist de investigație britanic premiat, cunoscut pentru reportajele sale aprofundate în publicații de renume precum WIRED (unde ocupă funcția de editor), GQ, The Guardian și The New York Times. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre tehnologie, economie și mediu. Prin Wasteland, el își confirmă capacitatea de a sintetiza probleme globale complexe prin prisma experiențelor umane directe, fiind recunoscut de BBC Radio 4 și de juriul Premiului Wainwright pentru calitatea scriiturii sale documentariste.

Descriere scurtă

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 

‘A gripping read that will anger as much as it fascinates’ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

‘An incredible journey into the world of rubbish, full of fascinating characters and mind-bending facts’ Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland
 
‘Urgent, probing and endlessly interesting’ Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment

'There are stories in all our discarded things: who made them, what they meant to a person before they were thrown away. In the end, it all ends up in the same place – the endless ingenuity of humanity in one filthy, fascinating mass.'
 
When we throw things ‘away’, what does that actually mean? Where does it go, and who deals with it when it gets there? In Wasteland, award-winning journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on an eye-opening journey through the global waste industry. From the mountainous landfills of New Delhi to Britain’s overflowing sewers, from hollowed-out mining towns in the USA to Ghana’s flooded second-hand markets, we meet the people on the frontline of our waste crisis – both those being exploited, and those determined to make a difference. On the way, we discover the corporate greenwashing that started the recycling movement; the dark truth behind our second-hand donations; and come face to face with the 10,000-year legacy of our nuclear waste.
 
Both shocking and hopeful, Wasteland is the timely and ultimately human story at the heart of an urgent global issue.
 

Notă biografică

Oliver Franklin-Wallis is an award-winning magazine journalist, whose writing has appeared in GQ, WIRED, The Guardian, the New York Times, The Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Economist’s 1843 magazine, and many other publications. He is currently the features editor of British GQ.

Recenzii

‘Waste is a serious problem and also a curiously fascinating one. In this brilliant book, Franklin-Wallis goes into it up to his neck – so we don’t have to! The result is a gripping read that will anger as much as it fascinates. There’s lots we can all do to help, but he’s right to conclude that it’s government and business who really have to step up, and clean up’
‘This is an incredible journey into the world of rubbish, full of fascinating characters and mind-bending facts. My relationship with garbage is never going to be the same’
‘An urgent, probing and endlessly interesting investigation into our staggering wastefulness and the environmental crisis this is creating right under our noses. In Wasteland, Oliver Franklin-Walls offers us a behind the scenes guide to the processing plants, rubbish tips and refuse mountains that lurk in our back yards; the thundering machinery and skilled workers who strive tirelessly to relieve us of the spoils of our own profligacy. As he does so, he turns up rare treasures and unexpected beauties amid the junk and the mess. Tirelessly reported, it is a book both horrifying in its implications and gleefully hair-raising in the way it is told’
‘Superb. Oliver Franklin-Wallis’ deep dive into our wasteful ways and dirty histories turns up a story that gleams with insight and promise. An urgent and vividly told exploration of the underside of modern life, Wasteland also reveals what a better future could look like. You'll never see trash the same way again’
'Just as everything we consume comes from somewhere on earth, so too everything we produce must go somewhere on earth – even if we don't want to think about it. This book compels us to. A fascinating, deeply researched and hugely important exposé of what happens to the stuff we no longer want, and the social and environmental cost of dealing with it. Revelatory, thoughtful and honest about our complex relationship with waste.'
With his investigative chops and contagious curiosity, Oliver Franklin-Wallis has cracked wide a dozen hidden, jaw-dropping worlds . . . Yet despite its grim revelations, the book offers hope. For we can’t begin to make things right until we understand the nuanced realities of what is wrong. Wasteland is compelling, smart, fair, often funny, always interesting, and just very important. Truly, it’s the most impressive nonfiction I’ve read in quite some time’ 
‘Wise, honest and unsparing, Wasteland will open your eyes to the reality of our throwaway society’
‘[An] eye-opening investigation into the global waste crisis and recycling industry’
'Sometimes it seems as if our main role as humans is to enjoy shiny things for a little while until they become discarded things. This is a fascinating and comprehensive tour of the second half of that equation – the tossed-out usually gets a thousandth the attention of the not-yet-purchased, but Oliver Franklin-Wallis does his best to redress that balance, in a book that wills you see the world quite differently than you did before'

 

 
‘[A] scary reflection of our overconsumption and failure to deal with its impact. . . completely engrossing. . . it is the wake-up call we need to do better’
 
'A travelogue around dumps, scrapyards, disposal and recycling facilities, from giant machines that shred TVs and other electronic devices to vast landfill sites in India: the all-too-solid hinterlands of our obsession with buying and throwing away so much stuff'

Descriere

A deep dive into the global waste industry by award-winning journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis.