PositiveThe NationClapp’s reporting underscores that garbage is not just an intractable problem of modern capitalism but also an encapsulation of the global inequities that define our waste-filled world ... Sobering ... [Clapp\'s] eye is more keenly trained on the vast ironies and injustices that our global economic system produces, as well as the seemingly harmless ways in which we all unknowingly participate ... Clapp borrows from Packard’s examination of \'planned obsolescence,\' but he adds some modern insights and twists that even Packard himself might not have envisioned ... Readers can expect to feel enraged and also a little hopeless.
