23 Aug 2010

The Story of stuff

It is a general description on how stuff made and where stuff go.
But the video is the clearest one that I have seen.
Generally, it is a little objective.

The talk is more about the economy and some kind of criticism.

At the beginning of this
vicious circleis about resources.
Resources are gone away because of financial actions. When people recognize there running out of resources in their own place, they move on to take away others. That how resources extracts lead to wars and other displace.

The manufactures not only takes away those physical resources, but also use the labour from other cheaper place. Its chilling to hear that the whole industry not only take away their land, but also take away their health. It’s a pity that those workers health are hold in a few people how control the industry.

The toxic things come out during the production is not the news. It was an inevitable problem till today’s level of technology. However, the safety of the products which is on using can be guarantee if we want to. It is horrible that the toxic will go into the body when using it. Every one is the customer in this age and, of course, if you have money you can buy a better one. Hence, if you do not have enough money and you are working in that kind of factory, it means that you live in a poison place and work with toxic and use poisonous products, and that means you are being killed by the vicious circle of industry.

It shows a irresponsibility. Few of us get the benefit, and most of us pay for it.

It is funny to hear that the products are design to be thrown away, and it could be a subject to study with. It is so smart to make people keep shopping to maintain the cycle working. It past time, maybe several hundred years before, we committed ourselves to make everything last as long as possible. Now we call these things antiques, and put them away or display them in glass exhibits. Advertisement plays a big role in keeping us shopping and making trash. We could say this make a new culture.

I will not blame the cultures which just like fast food, and we could not say that is somebody’s fall. But it is the time to get the odd circle stop.

The sustainable is being put on the table for decades but we still do nothing with turning the revolution up.

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