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World Wide Waste

Paperback • 2020 • English

World Wide Waste: How Digital Is Killing Our Planet—and What We Can Do About It

By Gerry McGovern

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About the book

Speaking out when it's unpopular. Back in the day, Henry David Thoreau raged at the robber barons-the big shots of their age, despoiling the environment in the name of progress. Deep in the throes of the seemingly unstoppable growth of tech, a modern-day Thoreau has emerged in the guise of Gerry McGovern-decrying the massive, hidden negative impacts of tech on the environment. McGovern has thoroughly documented in World Wide Waste how tech damages the Earth-and what we should be doing about it. ...Show more

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9781916444621

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

World Wide Waste

Format

Paperback

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