What we leave behind : a birdwatcher's dispatches from the waste catastrophe
Łubieński, Stanisław, 1983-2023
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It starts with a day at the beach. A single white sock that somehow spoils everything. It's enough to send writer and ornithologist Stanislaw Lubienski on a quest to understand what we throw away, where it goes and whether it will be our legacy. By analysing items he unearths on his trips into nature - a plastic bottle, a tube of Russian penis-enlargement cream, a cigarette butt, an empty aerosol can - tracing their origins and explaining the harm they can do, he shows how consumer society has developed out of control, to the point of environmental catastrophe. He also looks with a birdwatcher's eye at how various animals have come to adapt to and even rely on our rubbish, and interrogates the cultural significance of waste and the origins of our throw-away lifestyles.
Main title:
What we leave behind : a birdwatcher's dispatches from the waste catastrophe / Stanislaw Lubienski ; translated by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones.
Author:
Łubieński, Stanisław, 1983-, authorKrasodomska-Jones, Zosia, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2023.
Collation:
272 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Polish.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781529418866 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishPolish
BRN:
2387626