Sloth : The revelation of waste
(2023) In Riksbankens Jubileumsfond’s essay collection 2023.- Abstract
- Someone who throws away their rubbish on a street-corner or in a ditch is guilty of sloth. This may appear harmless, but seen through the lens of waste management, sloth soon develops into a deadly sin that harms other people’s lives and health. Hiding and forgetting waste has always been a practice with potentially disastrous consequences; buried containers full of toxins will eventually start to leak. Transporting waste to countries where cheap labour sorts rubbish in inhuman conditions moves the problem further away, but does not mitigate the sin. And too much faith in technology’s capacity to transform garbage into gold risks exacerbating sloth.
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Sloth - one of the deadly sins in our life - is here connected to waste handling in historical, recent, and future times. The text is structured in three themes: how waste is hidden and forgotten; waste kept at distance; waste, technology, and shame. It ends with reflections on concepts such as the old deadly sins, rigid as they may be, is worth defending and if they still might speak to a modern audience. The answer is yes.
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- author
- Åkesson, Lynn LU
- translator
- Barnes, Clare
- organization
- alternative title
- Lättja : Det avslöjande avfallet
- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Book/Report
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Sloth, Deadly sins, waste, cultural history, waste scandals, technology, shame, Waste Handling
- in
- Riksbankens Jubileumsfond’s essay collection
- volume
- 2023
- pages
- 40 pages
- publisher
- Makadam förlag
- ISSN
- 2000-1029
- ISBN
- 978-91-7061-957-1
- 978-91-7061-457-6
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Original title: "Lättja: Det avslöjande avfallet" Part of RJ yearbok: The Deadly Sins in our Time, Jenny Björkman (ed). The booklet "Sloth" is an essay on one of the seven sins.
- id
- 7a2e9749-2d75-4452-b9b5-19f3df6c6d26
- date added to LUP
- 2024-10-01 00:31:57
- date last changed
- 2025-04-04 15:03:02
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author = {{Åkesson, Lynn and Barnes, Clare}},
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publisher = {{Makadam förlag}},
series = {{Riksbankens Jubileumsfond’s essay collection}},
title = {{Sloth : The revelation of waste}},
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volume = {{2023}},
year = {{2023}},
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