The Story of Stuff

gabers
gabers Posts: 2,787
edited December 2007 in A Moving Train
http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Great presentation when you have 20 free minutes. It's a presentation of the consumer cycle and was quite enlightening. It's worth your time I promise. It will make you think twice the next time you go shopping.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    gabers wrote:
    http://www.storyofstuff.com/

    Great presentation when you have 20 free minutes. It's a presentation of the consumer cycle and was quite enlightening. It's worth your time I promise. It will make you think twice the next time you go shopping.


    Very good. Well done.

    Thanks
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Some nice pollution pics from around China...that's all smog, not clouds.

    070709-china-pollution_big.jpg
    1488China%20Pollution.jpg

    before and after a hard rain:
    Beijing_smog_comparison_August_2005.png

    A view of the sun in Beijing on normal polluted day (no blue in this sky)
    Sun_in_beijing1.jpg

    satellite view of the persistent grey haze the consumes China:
    782px-Pollution_over_east_China.jpg

    Nothing is built to last anymore, and this is by design. A perpetual treadmill of purchase...consume... purchase....repeat...

    Big corporation is screwing everyone over as well the planet. The greedy , demented 1% that own practically everything. They are sick people.

    Spending money is like voting! Spend wisely!
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • Magstar
    Magstar Posts: 117
    Thing is, though. People talk about this all the time. But not many take the time to do anything about it. For example, people at my school have been complaining for years that we trash the environment because nobody recycles. So this year, some friends and I worked our butts off to get recycling bins in the school. In can be done. So don't just sit around talking about it all the time. :)
    It's okay, Pluto. I'm not a planet either.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Magstar wrote:
    Thing is, though. People talk about this all the time. But not many take the time to do anything about it. For example, people at my school have been complaining for years that we trash the environment because nobody recycles. So this year, some friends and I worked our butts off to get recycling bins in the school. In can be done. So don't just sit around talking about it all the time. :)

    A lot of us recycle, but as the presentation stated, it takes much more than that. We have to change our whole mindset. Especially us here in the USA. The whole process needs change. But it can start with the little things, like recycling and buying re-usable items, etc.

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