“The Story of Stuff” is eye-opening!!!
Posted in Efficiency, Global warming, Recycling, Renewable on 19 June 2008

Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff is a short documentary about the material economy, explaining how stuff that we use in our daily lives is being processed. This 20 min, 2008 award wining production is actually a tour which attempts at explaining the evils of a market-driven economy, that has reached the Golden era of consumption (enthusiastic readers can read the “ Take Off Theory” by W.W.Rostow, which explains the emergence of the high mass consumption stage in any country that earlier had primitive sources of production.)

Well coming back to the topic…..

The tour guide (Leonard herself) who’s an activist has spent 10 yrs researching on “Where does all the stuff we buy come from, and where does it go when we throw it out?” Using animation and a racy narrative, she explains to the common man the linear process that drives a material economy. This process includes: extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. She elucidates the myths behind these processes and clears our incomplete notions about ‘recycling’. Some startling facts are being exposed, like the emission of dioxin-toxic pollutant, by burning wastes.

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