This video "Story of stuff" shows us how the world’s assets slowly are running out and this is just to contribute to some of ours sick lifestyles. It’s known for a long time now that we humans are living beyond the world’s assets and this clip surely shows that we must do something before killing the world and when we do that, there’s no hope left for us.It’s sad that they cut down so much forest and other necessities for humans living in that part of the world and killing their opportunities for further living in those places. That is all an effect to make our lives in Europe and North-America “easier” to live, it’s like we can’t live without our Iphones, newest computers, 3D TV’s and all the other extra ordinary technical stuff. In a sadly kind of way we take their life’s just to make ours easier, but we are not meaning for it to be so but our governments has put this kind of living so hard in our heads that we don’t know how to get rid of it.
For an example in Sweden when the crisis hit us 2008, the thing that caught my attention was that the government told us to shop to make the crisis reduce, not to hold our money for better times, but to shop to get more money into the market. Just an example of what Bush did 9/11 to what she refers to in her video.
The toxic waste they contribute to make all products that we buy is a thing that the governments all over the world can change I think, because there’s always substitutions for all kinds of stuff so it should be a substitution for the toxic to. They can’t expect going on and adding toxic to the products without someone interacting with them about that. They’re contributing to our sickness and something must be done about that.
The consumer’s isn’t in my opinion guilty for this problem, they act as they are learned and it’s essential to make us, the consumer’s, understand what our buying habit does to people at these unfortunate places and to our world.We should think that maybe our new cellphone or computer contributed that someone lost their food source because their lake now is so polluted that all fish has died.
They’re pumping us with stuff that we later on “need” so much. Our old stuff doesn’t keep the measures anymore, it’s old, it’s ugly etc. But for whom is it old, and for whom is it ugly? The consumer who bought it maybe thinks that this is the most beautiful thing he/she bought, but the company’s keep pumping them with adds so they later on think opposite of what they thought when he/she bought it. That’s just coldhearted propaganda for us to consume more.
We should take care of our fellow human beings and the animals, because we all are so dependent on each other’s and if we continue with this major consumption we will not provide the opportunity for future generations, our grandchildren, to life a healthy life and good life.
They will maybe learn the things that we can’t learn today about our problems, but then maybe it will be too late.
very good written Tommo, I like how u write and how u reflect about the movie. U formulate your sentence well. And i agree with you we must do something about it..
SvaraRaderaand nice picture u posted.. =)
Yes, I totaly agree on your reflection and also on the feedback of Quang Dinh.
SvaraRaderaYou're making a good point on consumers' attitude: People are easy to persuade to consume more. But of course, it shouldn't be so easy, if people would just care about the environment, future generations and animals. It seems to me sometimes, as if we are just not willing to see or learn about the danger of living beyond the worlds' asset and the consequences of it!
Good written, language wise and points as well. I was thinking the similar thing, customers has no fault of buying what they like to buy, and they have very limited opportunities to know details of how products are produced, made of what etc. But it is the government, companies who make these products they have the responsibility to let customers know more.
SvaraRaderaFrom customers perspective, they may have the control of themselves what they really need and then buy them. In a short, decrease the demands, decrease the suppliers may result in less resources usage and waste in the end I think.
The things are the same in China, when we meet a crisis the government encourage us to do more shopping and not hold the money in hand. They just concern the current crisis not mention the feature. We are the human that will be continued in the future but we even don't care our future generation instead wasting more and more resource. Use the unneed things to chage the growth of economic. Now we have to change our mind to protect our earth.
SvaraRaderaThe above report starts with the good introduction by mentioning the main purpose. third world countries are well presented as they are abused by the other countries in terms of pollution.
SvaraRaderaThe pleasureful life of the human beings is well described in which they need new things and make it fashion. So, in overall we have to think about our beautiful world that requires are strong consideration regarding pollution and it requires green production.