{"product_id":"9781529418866","title":"What We Leave Behind : A Birdwatcher's Dispatches from the Waste Catastrophe","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Lubienski, Stanislaw \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 12\/10\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 272 pages, 19 b\/w photographs,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529418866,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Everything looked perfect. Sand - unique Baltic sand, the best in the world - and the calm sea. But wait. Something was amiss. Something was wrong'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe 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. Finally, he adds a personal touch by examining his own 'environmental neurosis' and by going out with refuse crews to watch them work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Lubienski never hectors his readers, nor shames them, his clear-eyed, persuasive and humble polemic reminds us what we, as individuals, can and cannot do to address an apocalyptic issue while there's still something worth saving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Polish by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53626457096565,"sku":"9781529418866","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529418866.jpg?v=1731672753","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529418866","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}