Foreign Affairs Book Group
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November's pick for discussion is Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash by Alexander Clapp. "Alexander Clapp does something engrossing, if not entirely appealing, in his book. He follows rubbish, travelling to some of the world's most unpleasant places to chronicle the effects of consumption... jaw-dropping... Mr Clapp's aim is not just to display his ample reporting chops, but to trace the rise of a controversial form of globalisation: the growth of the global trade in waste. As Western countries put in place stricter environmental regulation, the job of disposing of their waste fell to poorer ones."-- The Economist
Alexander Clapp is a journalist and writer based in Greece. His reporting has appeared in publications including the New York Times, The Economist, the London Review of Books, and The Guardian Long Read. Clapp is the recipient of numerous journalism awards, among them a Whiting Nonfiction Grant, Matthew Power Literary Reporting Prize, Robert B. Silvers Reporting Grant, and a Pulitzer Center Breakthrough Journalism Award. He has also received the Alistair Horne Fellowship at Oxford and a Berggruen Fellowship in Los Angeles.
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Location
2nd Floor Meeting Room, Greenwich, CT
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