Wasteland
The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters
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A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023
INCLUDED IN THE GUARDIAN'S BEST IDEAS 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.
©2023 Oliver Franklin-Wallis (P)2023 Simon & Schuster, UK
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5 out of 5 stars
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A phenomenal read & serious eye-opener
- De Andy Feicht en 10-07-18
De: Edward Humes
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The Big Necessity
- The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
- De: Rose George
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
We prefer not to talk about it, but we should. Disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any other single cause of death. Even in America, nearly two million people have no access to an indoor toilet. Yet the subject remains unmentionable. Moving from the underground sewers of Paris, London, and New York (an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen) to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people, The Big Necessity breaks the silence, revealing everything that matters about how people do - and don't - deal with their own waste.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Utterly fascinating
- De Clayton en 03-31-19
De: Rose George
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Farmageddon
- The True Cost of Cheap Meat
- De: Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 170
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent insight of industrial farming
- De Grazyna en 04-19-14
De: Philip Lymbery, y otros
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No Immediate Danger
- Carbon Ideologies, Volume One
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
In his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling some of the most important issues of our age. Now, Vollmann turns to a topic that will define the generations to come - the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change, from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction, economic demand for electric power, and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Look at the brightside always and die in a dream!
- De Darwin8u en 04-14-19
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Coal
- A Human History
- De: Barbara Freese
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 378
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 185
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 191
The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history. Yet the mundane mineral that built our global economy, and even today powers our electrical plants, has also caused death, disease, and environmental destruction. In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins three hundred million years ago and spans the globe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Uses Coal to push her Political Agenda
- De Kismet en 08-22-06
De: Barbara Freese
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Green Metropolis
- What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
- De: David Owen
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York City.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A stupid and dangerously short sighted view
- De Gare&Sophia en 11-13-12
De: David Owen
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- De: Bill Gates
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,624
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,895
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,862
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Be curious, not furious
- De Axel Merk en 02-20-21
De: Bill Gates
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The Upcycle
- Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance
- De: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: We don't just reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve them as we use them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A "must read" for the environmental movement.
- De Love owls en 07-09-13
De: William McDonough, y otros
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Apocalypse Never
- Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
- De: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,013
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,592
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,582
Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed "billions of people are going to die", contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Environmentalist with integrity!
- De Wayne en 07-01-20
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Windfall
- The Booming Business of Global Warming
- De: McKenzie Funk
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Global warming's physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see a potential windfall in each of these forces. The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenland - and for the man-made snow trade. Drought creates opportunities for private firefighters working for insurance companies as well as for fund managers backing south Sudanese warlords who control local farmland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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unintended windfalls mixed with obvious perils
- De Andy en 02-09-14
De: McKenzie Funk
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On the Grid
- A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
- De: Scott Huler
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
In our daily lives, we're surrounded by wires, pipes, utility poles, cell phone towers, and myriad other infrastructure that facilitates almost everything we do. Even though these systems are essential, when was the last time you gave them much thought? In On the Grid, Scott Huler sets out to understand all of the systems that shape our society - from transportation, water, and garbage to the Internet coming through our cable lines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Skippy the Okie en 01-27-16
De: Scott Huler
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Living in the Long Emergency
- Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward
- De: James Howard Kunstler
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
In his 2005 book, The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler described the global predicaments that would pitch the USA into political and economic turmoil in the 21st century - the end of affordable oil, climate irregularities, and flagging economic growth, to name a few. Now, he returns with a book that takes an up-close-and-personal approach to how real people are living now - surviving The Long Emergency as it happens.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Please Read Before Buying
- De K. Skoog en 05-12-20
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Plastic Ocean
- De: Capt. Charles Moore, Cassandra Phillips
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, which inspired a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative
- De Paul en 01-30-23
De: Capt. Charles Moore, y otros
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The Soil Will Save Us
- How Scientists, Farmers, and Ranchers Are Tending the Soil to Reverse Global Warming
- De: Kristin Ohlson
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 679
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 600
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 594
In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming. Her discoveries and vivid storytelling will revolutionize the way we think about our food, our landscapes, our plants, and our relationship to Earth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Rambling, mile wide, inch deep treatment of a subject
- De Charles Phillips en 10-17-18
De: Kristin Ohlson
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The Vertical Farm
- Feeding the World in the 21st Century
- De: Dickson Despommier
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. The vertical farm has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Brainstorming - Not reality
- De Texas Community Project en 01-25-11
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
- De: Tim Harford
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 313
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us. From the plough to artificial intelligence, from Gillette's disposable razor to IKEA's Billy bookcase, best-selling author and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford recounts each invention's own curious, surprising, and memorable story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking
- De Paul Norris en 09-10-17
De: Tim Harford
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,591
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,361
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,357
At the dawn of the 20th century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the worlds scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found it: the brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and the reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book Thoroughly Researched
- De Terry A. Gray en 10-21-11
De: Thomas Hager
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Slime
- How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
- De: Ruth Kassinger
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In Slime we'll meet the algae innovators working toward a sustainable future: from seaweed farmers in South Korea, to scientists using it to clean the dead zones in our waterways, to the entrepreneurs fighting to bring algae fuel and plastics to market. Ruth Kassinger takes listeners on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes, and into-the-kitchen tour. Whether you thought algae was just the gunk in your fish tank or you eat seaweed with your oatmeal, Slime will delight and amaze with its stories of the good, the bad, and the up-and-coming.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fairly entertaining and informative...but
- De Timothy en 08-27-19
De: Ruth Kassinger