The Story of Stuff
But the truth is, it's a system in crisis, and the reason it's a system in crisis is it's a linear system and we live on a finite planet, and you cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely. From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
The resolution of the video has become quiet bad. Is it possible to fix?
Excellent.
and then???
it's a nice explanation, but it doesn't give you much of a solution.
We're all going to hell in a handbasket
If we don't find a solution pretty soon, and stop worshipping all kinds of worthless warmongering god-isms, and spending all our time and resources killing eachother and our planet over these obsolete god delusions, we're gonna have to find find a new place to live.
Where's the next best earth?
The youtube community ripped this to shreds.lol
The consumption that we do is the main reason of business growth .
consume just enough and do not waste, stop greediness, donate and share, recycle, discipline, love the nature, concern for yourself and the next generation and if all people will participate in this kind of action that will be a great help to somehow save Our Mother Earth...
Although the computer part here is greatly simplified, the truth is that there are both perceived and planned obsolescence at work.
The computer part isn't entirely accurate.
While the technology DOES change quite quickly it's not that drastic. Most people probably don't need to change out computers as often as they do but most people aren't computer savvy enough to know how to upgrade their machine themselves (via new drivers, software, individual components, etc). This is why it's much more effective to build your own computer if you have the time to learn how - and it doesn't require much technical expertise, these days most components are "plug n play" and require being screwed in at most. Then you can easily change out obsolete hardware when it actually IS obsolete and you don't pay for features you don't need.
Technology is not like you change the microchip only, the process fund inventions, not just one micro chip. Some people can stay with old software and hardware but when it broke down, you have no choice but to buy the latest and new one don't lasts also waste money fixing problems.
If there is no virus, no antivirus is needed and that is a wastage. So, just a few individuals are notorious and we all have to pay. Why? Sounds like insurance, you'll never know when you need it, what cause the system to break is greed and over population.
the computer part is wrong
Thanks for this bit of nudging, Cass Sunstein. My best to your wife, Responsibility-to-Protect Samantha Power.
John you are obviously a very confused, and no very little about famine/ world hunger. 50 years ago yes they said that, and they might of miscalculated it a little bit, but if you do some research you'd find out that there are more people starving then ever before, and that has nothing to do with killing the rich farmers, it is that these 3rd world countries get these massive loans that they can't ever pay off so these massive corporations come in, and set up shop literally destroying the local markets, and the farmers supply of food/productive resources. Look it up! 1% of the world doesn't own all of the money, but 99% of the productive resources throwing away millions of tons of food each year to maintain profit then hoarding all of the rest, the whole idea of capitalism is produce enough, and make sure there is some left over for others, not to hoard everything when you get into a position of power that is, so disproportional to the rest of the world, and if you think the system we have in place today is a capitalist one you are highly ignorant, having 1% of the world that owns 99% of the productive resources, and most of all of the resources on the planet that is an oligarchy; it is anti competition, and anti small business when you have a small percentage owning that many productive resources. This infinite growth paradigm is highly destructive to our earth if you don't believe so you are living in a fantasy world, we are governed by natural laws that is it, and the notion that big business produces the best possible goods at the lowest possible prices is ridiculous, for these giant corporations to maintain profit they have to produce goods that have a high turn over rate, and break down easy, so you can consume more and more, most of the money goes towards advertising to give you a false since of inadequacy if you don't have certain items to influence people to mindlessly consume, which speeds up the process tremendously of resource depletion, and waste, so if you really think that infinite growth is a trivial matter at this point you are dead wrong man, and of course economists are going to say things like this is irrelevant, they have vested interest, for if you listen to scientists people who actually study the earth they would assure you that infinite growth is by far one of the most detrimental problems facing society today.
I'm so tired when people take the assumption of the "FINITE". 50 years, ago they said there wouldn't be enough food for 6billion people, oh and look we've got 7 billion now. If pple studied Ricardian economics 100 years ago, he said the same thing, and then Karl Marx (founder of communism) then also based his theory on this with his labour theory of value. This then caused people to destroy the technology industry, kill the rich people and redistribute the remainder of the wealth and then slowly steep into poverty again. IDIOTS!! the same stuff happens in africa this very day, they kill all the rich farmers, and the whole country goes into a famine. This doco blames technology and then recredits 'some' of the technology if its green, hello!! Its the same technology that your bashing.. It's so much idiocy. Don't even get me started on her understanding of consumption, if she even studied any economics i.e. keynes or milton, she would know why the economy is structured the way it is, and not pretend like she found some magic phenomenon that "we are consuming".
I was really a great documentary film(No doubt). It has change the course of understanding of my life....
This is a good documentary. For those of you that think it wasn't or that the math is wrong... where is your math? If this is propaganda... what are they trying to advertise? A healthy and fair world? Pretty scary stuff ;)
so no real solution to today's problems, it would have been completed if there was some illuminati and free masons drama,... let's all hug trees and kiss them, and see how the economy rises for ever ! ,... lost my time watching this one!!
Phew, now i'm breathless. nicely done. Always good to be reminded...
Short & sassy, it goes dorectly to the point.
Sort of an educational docu seen in high schools. It round off the whole situation allright but there's no follow up on what is done or what could be done to solve the case.
Pierre.
This is a totally simplistic and juvenile view. First the US does not exploit other countries resources, each country exploits its own resources, by either using or selling those resources. In the USA logging companies for instance are required by law to replant trees to replace the ones cut down, in Brazil the the Brazilian farmers are cutting down rain forest to feed themselves and to search for gold. Second it lumps every manufacturing process together, it makes no differentiation between the chair you are sitting on or the rug on the floor or the eye glasses or computer it is all the same to her. She is right it is not the whole story and this version is very incomplete. Also the tone is very patronizing, she is all knowing and I am a child.
If you think this is biased you are obviously in denial. The system is actually far worse than what was presented here. We need to take action and take it now. We must abandon the system.
This was very biased. I remember watching it in my Science class in high school. I used to be very impressionable and became scared, but after a few years I began to see how biased this really is.
Although it does display many truths, i.e. pollution, resources, big business. But it was stretched beyond the reality of it.
marxist socialist communist propaganda
While I agree with her overall sentiment, as usual this person has stretched the facts to fit her purposes. Here are just a few minor corrections. 1st, Industry recycles more than individuals, not the other way around. 2nd, While Dioxins are a nasty class of hydrocarbon they are produced by forest fires, as well as other natural phenomenon, not just industry- oh and by the way- not one single case of contamination by any toxin has been recorded to be due to pillow exposure, give me break lady!! Brominated materials are less likely to burn, and this flame resistance is directly responsible for SAVING lives. Brominated hydro-carbons occurr in nature everyday, they are part of a family of compounds called halogenated hydrocarbons. Any element in row seven of the periodoc table is called a halogen, and they all bond to hydrocarbons in nature, with the exception of astatine which is a short lived radio active element. 3rd, and most important to me, synthetic chemistry does not produce alien compounds or elements, it produces compounds that already exist to greater or lesser degrees in nature. Its called "synthetic" simply because we controll the amounts of reactants and the environment they will combine in insted of nature.
O.k. so what did I agree with? We are definetly running a linear system which can never work on a finite planet; the cycle of ever increasing consumption coupled with depletion of resources is a system that will inevitably fail. I also agree with her summation of when and how we ended up in this role of consumer, I thought her example of Bush telling us to shop after 9/11 was very represenative of this fact. Also I agree with her point that the west, the U.S. in particular, consumes a disproportionate amount of the worlds resources, leaving the rest of the world in need and poverty.
However, I feel the answer to this problem will eventually come from our research in synthetic chemistry, manufacturing and recycling techniques, etc. Not from abandoning the modern world to revert to some primitive state. The very things that most people want to blame for our present situation are the keys to getting out of our present situation. Synthetic chemistry sounds horrible when you say it, doesn't it. It sounds like you are creating unnatural things that should never really exist. The truth of the matter is that almost every compound created through so called synthetic chemistry also exist in nature. Synthetic chemistry simply means that we started with two or more elements or compounds and combined them in such a way as to create a new compound. If I mix NaCl (sodium chloride) and H2SO4 (sulfuric acid) we get sodium sulfate Na2(SO4) and HCl (hydrogen chloride) gas. The ionic compounds have reformed in a lower energy state of increased entropy. Now this happens all the time in nature, all of the above compounds exist in nature and when they meet, viola. But this is a example of what we call synthetic chemistry. Not such a monster anymore huh? Most synthetic chemistry takes place with organic compounds, hydrocarbons of different kinds. We start with one organic compound and through different chemical means, some simple others not, we add or remove the different functional or alkyl groups that give us our desired product. This process has been responsible for creating endless lists of useful, sometimes life saving, compounds and for giving us a cost effective way to collect and use otherwise very rare compounds.
Our "money, money, money is all that matters" life style is more to blame for our societal and environmental ills than modern science, by a long shot. Modern science provides us with useful tools and knowledge, what we do with those tools and that knowledge is NOT the fault of science. Nuclear technology is a prime example, it can be used by small men with small minds to destroy and inflict horrible suffering, or it can be used by mature responsible adults to create cost effective electrical energy that enhances the quality of our lives, it's up to us.
The problem is twofold.
1. Population.
2. Wealth.
The earth could support 7 billion people living on a dollar a day (a dollar a day simply representing an individuals claim on resources). The earth could also support 500 million people living on $140 a day, but it cannot have both high population and high consumption.
Luckily for those living at the moment nature allows species to go beyond the carrying capacity of their environment for a short time. To be beyond ones carrying capacity is usually signaled by a contracting resource base (declining fisheries, fresh water, soil erosion, fossil fuel depletion). In time this leads to a population crash, and a carrying capacity lower than before the over exploitation of resources.
Should be an interesting century. Good thing I'm only 24 years old, so I get to be one of very few human beings to ever live that will witness the peak and fall of a global civilization (that's not sarcasm as people in the past had to endure far harsher realities on a daily basis. I'm genuinely excited to witness history as opposed to reading about it).
This is a must see for all those people who defend their right to reproduce all the children they desire and claim this earth of ours can sustain more than we can possibly produce.
No matter what, the majority of our natural resources are already gone!
People keep making more and more people w/o a thought to the impact this has on everyone else.
Our government should not be handed the power over how many children a person can have, yet we dare them not to act?
Sterilints in our water, birth control commercials, Aids, Cancer (cures have been found, they don't want us to know), hormone injected meat, monsanto, etc.
Rumor has it, 90% population reduction is what they have planned.
Nice simple, short, very imformative video.