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Waste Wars : The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash. by Clapp, Alexander.;
'Waste Wars' is a jaw-dropping expose of how and why, for the last 40 years, our garbage has spawned a massive, globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar economy, one that offloads our consumption footprints onto distant continents. If the handling of our trash reveals deeper truths about our Western society, what does the globalized business of garbage say about our world today? And what does it say about us?Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; SCIENCE / Environmental Science; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management;
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Defund : Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All. by Hudson, Sandy.;
'Defund' is a fiercely argued, deeply informed examination of why defunding the police is the only way to support a model of security and protection that increases public safety overall. Sandy Hudson lives in Toronto, ON.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination;
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Carbon : The Book of Life. by Hawken, Paul.;
Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living world. Our planet is lifeless without it, yet it is maligned as the driver of climate change, scorned as an errant element blamed for the possible demise of civilization. In 'Carbon', Paul Hawken looks at the flow of life through the lens of carbon and offers a new narrative for embracing carbons life-giving power and its possibilities for the future of human endeavor.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change; SCIENCE / Natural History;
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Hope Dies Last : Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future. by Weisman, Alan.;
Alan Weisman returns with a book ten years in the making. A remedy to climate anxiety, 'Hope Dies Last' fills a gap in the global conversation: having reached a point of no return in our climate confrontation, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future different from what we had expected? From the author of 'The World Without Us'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change;
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The great wave : the era of radical disruption and the rise of the outsider / by Kakutani, Michiko,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today's world, creating both opportunity and peril-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth. The twenty-first century is experiencing a watershed moment defined by chaos and uncertainty, as one emergency cascades into another, underscoring the larger dynamics of change that are fueling instability across the world. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, people have increasingly lost trust in institutions and elites, while seizing upon new digital tools to sidestep traditional gatekeepers. As a result, powerful new voices-once regarded as radical, unorthodox or marginal-are disrupting the status quo in politics, business and culture. Meanwhile, social and economic inequalities are stoking populist rage across the world, toxic partisanship is undermining democratic ideals, and the internet and AI have become high-speed vectors for the spread of misinformation. Writing with a critic's understanding of cultural trends and a journalist's eye for historical detail, Michiko Kakutani looks at the consequences of these new asymmetries of power. She maps the migration of ideas from the margins to the mainstream and explores the growing influence of outsiders-those who have sown anger and fear (like Donald Trump), and those who have provided inspirational leadership (like Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky). At the same time, she situates today's multiplying crises in context with those that defined earlier hinge moments in history, from the waning of the Middle Ages, to the transition between the Gilded Age and Progressive era at the end of the nineteenth century. Kakutani argues that today's crises are not only signs of an interconnected globe's profound vulnerabilities, but stress tests pointing to the essential changes needed to survive this tumultuous era and build a more sustainable future"--
Subjects: Civilization, Modern; Elite (Social sciences); Globalization.; Political culture.; Power (Social sciences); Uncertainty.;
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Chasing Shadows : Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy. by Deibert, Ronald J.;
Like a John Le Carre novel updated for the digital age, 'Chasing Shadows' provides a gripping account of how the Citizen Lab, the worlds foremost digital watchdogs, uncovered dozens of cyber espionage cases in countries around the world. Ronald J. Deibert lives in Toronto, ON. From the author of 'Reset'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: COMPUTERS / Security / Viruses & Malware; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International);
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Waste Land : A World in Permanent Crisis. by Kaplan, Robert D.;
We are entering a new era of global cataclysm in which the world faces a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, the end of both monarchy and empire, and countless other dangers. In 'Waste Land', Robert D. Kaplan explains how we got here and offers lessons from history that can help stop the spiral.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Europe / Germany; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General;
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The petroleum papers : inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change / by Dembicki, Geoff,author.; David Suzuki Institute.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Drawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, this explosive work of investigative reporting reveals for the first time the far-right conspiracy that's stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis. In The Petroleum Papers, investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki tells the story of how the American oil companies that founded the tar sands in Alberta, Canada--home to the third-biggest oil reserves on the planet--ignored warnings about climate devastation as early as 1959. Instead of alerting the world to act on this impending global disaster, Exxon, Koch Industries, Shell and others created ad campaigns saying climate change isn't real and that alternatives to oil are an economic disaster. These companies built a global right-wing echo chamber to ensure tar sands could keep flowing into the U.S., which helped elect Donald Trump and now leaves the Joe Biden administration with a sprawling climate mess. But Dembicki also tells the high-stakes stories of people fighting back: the Seattle lawyer who brought Big Tobacco to its knees and is now going after Big Oil, a young Filipino activist who saw her family drown in a climate disaster, and a former engineer at Exxon who was pushed out for asking too many hard questions. With experts now warning we have less than a decade to get global emissions under control, The Petroleum Papers provides a step-by-step account of how we got to this precipice and the politicians and companies who deserve our blame."--
Subjects: Climatic changes; Petroleum industry and trade; Right and left (Political science);
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Soldiers and kings : survival and hope in the world of human smuggling. by De León, Jason.;
"An intimate and one-of-a-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist. Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet media and politicians have always characterized smugglers--or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services--using tired tropes and stereotypes, as boogie men and violent warlords. In an effort to better understand this essential yet extralegal billion dollar global industry, internationally recognized anthropologist and expert Jason De León embedded with a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico over the course of seven years. The result of this unprecedented access is SOLDIERS AND KINGS: the first ever in-depth, character-driven look at human smuggling. It is a heart-wrenching and intimate narrative that revolves around the life and death of one coyote, Chino, who falls in love and tries to leave smuggling behind. In a powerful, original voice, De León expertly chronicles the lives of low-level foot soldiers breaking into the smuggling game, and morally conflicted gang leaders who oversee rag-tag crews of guides and informants along the migrant trail. SOLDIERS AND KINGS is not only a ground-breaking up-close glimpse of a difficult-to-access world, it is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction"--Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Hispanic & Latino; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration;
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Unsettled : what climate science tells us, what it doesn't, and why it matters / by Koonin, Steven E.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The author points out that core questions about the way the climate is responding to our influence and what the impacts will be remain largely unanswered. He provides insights and perspective free from political agendas, dispels popular myths, and unveils little-known truths. He points out that the models we use to predict the future aren't able to accurately describe the climate of the past, suggesting they are deeply flawed.
Subjects: Informational works.; Climatic changes; Climatology; Global warming;
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