Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Annie Leonard - The Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard talks about how modern day manufacturing and throughout history in manufacturing products have had a one way ticket. Were by at the end of there life cycle they would end up in land fill and not recycled. She talks about this system as flawed and how we cannot live this way into the future if we plan on taking care of our environment and making a sustainable future for generations to come. She also shows us numerical evidence of the pattern connecting development of products with the health of the planet and social issues.

Cultures around the world are all part of the problem, especially the western world were 99% of the natural resource used to develop products are thrown out after a limited time of use. The percentage is way too high for a sustainable environment, this is done so that a country can have a larger economic benefit. This way of thinking was shown when Kevin Rudd gave the population $900 cash outs 'so they could spend it', were else would people spend this money but in retail stores. To alleviate this stress on our environment more recycling and a higher material recovery of products should be put into affect.
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