In the week when Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, interrogating the beliefs of the technology world's most powerful people seems more important than ever. Our June pick, MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER does just that. But how?
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Our book of the month for May is “Feed the People!” by Gabriel N Rosenberg and @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social — a provocative argument in favor of mass food production and the pleasures of “democratic hedonism”
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If you're interested in finding out what really happens to your trash (hint, it's a big business that causes a lot of harm) then pick up a copy of "Waste Wars."
Guess what? It's our book of the month, available now with a Curious Reading Club subscription!
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And here's a worker in a shipbreaking yard in Izmir, Turkey, where huge cruise liners are ripped to pieces and the parts are reused. The conditions are wildly unsafe, workers are often untrained and rarely have protective gear. Deaths are disturbingly common.
What made “Waste Wars” our book of the month for April?
It’s a skillful expose of the myths at the center of the rubbish and recycling industry… revealing how this is a big money operation that perverts our relationship with trash.
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Here's Agbogbloshie, the vast garbage pile in Accra, Ghana, that is home to 35,000 people and the dumping ground for some 15,000 tonnes of western e-waste every year.
This is a *river* in Java, Indonesia that is so stuffed with plastic waste you can't even see the water. There's so much trash here that recycling is impossible: people here simply burn the plastic they find for fuel in their homes and kitchens.
One of the most impressive things about @alexclapp.bsky.social's "Waste Wars" is his journey to document the afterlife of our garbage.
Here are some of the locations he visits in our April book of the month. Get ready, it's genuinely shocking.
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Our book of the month for April is the remarkable, globetrotting “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash” by Alexander Clapp - @alexclapp.bsky.social - an eye-opening dive into what really happens to the stuff you throw into the garbage and recycling.
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Excited to say that our pick of the month for June is @adambecker.bsky.social's storming MORE, EVERYTHING, FOREVER. From AI apocalypse to immortality, if you've ever wondered what strange beliefs the Silicon Valley really hold... this is the book for you.
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A look at what makes "More Everything Forever" tick.
