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- Waste wars : the wild afterlife of your trash / by Clapp, Alexander,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."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?"--- Subjects: Recycling (Waste, etc.); Recycling industry.; Refuse and refuse disposal; Refuse and refuse disposal;
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- Aquello que nos da calor / by Gaiman, Neil.; Gómez Calvo, Ignacio.; Riddell, Chris.; Davies, Benji.; Gwilym, Yuliya.; Kaadan, Nadine.; Smy, Pam.; Egnéus, Daniel.; Horáček, Petr.; Suzanna, Beth.; Ibatoulline, Bagram.; Harel, Marie-Alice.; Adin, Majid.; Jones, Richard,1977-; Jeffers, Oliver.;
Un nuevo libro poderoso y necesario de Neil Gaiman, publicado en colaboración con ACNUR, para hablar de conflictos, desplazamientos forzados y la importancia de acoger. A veces solo necesitamos que alguien reafirme que tenemos derecho a estar aquí. En 2019, Neil Gaiman preguntó a sus seguidores de Twitter: qué les recuerda a la calidez? Su pregunta reveló nuestro deseo compartido de sentirnos seguros, bienvenidos y cálidos en un mundo que a menudo puede ser hostil. Más de 1.000 respuestas después, Neil comenzó a entretejer respuestas de todo el mundo en un poema en apoyo al llamamiento por el frío extremo de ACNUR. Aquello que nos da calor es una exploración del desplazamiento y la huida del conflicto a través de los objetos y recuerdos que representan la calidez.During the coldest season, when the world feels scary--what do you remember about being warm? Baked potatoes. Trust. A kettle on the stove. Blankets. A smile. And, most of all, the reassurance that you belong. In his powerful and moving poem, featuring illustrations from thirteen extraordinary artists, bestselling author and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Neil Gaiman draws together many different memories to answer the question, what do you need to be warm?- Subjects: Poetry.; Picture books.; Emigration and immigration; Poverty; Refugees; Refugee children; Homelessness; Human comfort; Spanish language materials.;
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