As I sit here looking at the beautiful San Francisco Bay I see an enormous container ship heading to port with a huge load of…stuff. Made me think of this great video, “The Story of Stuff“, I saw a while back. http://www.archive.org/details/TheStoryOfStuff
Conspicuous consumers beware.
-Jeff Kaplan
Hi, so fun after reading this . So relax ! Thanks for sharing !
A very important message, let us all just hope that boot-licking politicians stop worshiping their sponsors and start to work for their true paymasters for the good of the worlds people and therefore the world itself. Delivered efficiently and confidently, compliments to the narrator and thanks for posting the video.
That’s so lovely!
I thought it was just one of those bullshit greenpeace stuff that just complained, but I kept watching… and then they presented a better way to go in the end. Lovely
More videos with ideas of better ways should be created. We need those!
Making consumption a closed loop optimized for human survival is moving in
the right direction. The question is how fast can we tighten the the loop
to compensate for an ever growing population? The most important and humane
way is to stabilize and by natural attrition reduce the population to a sustainable level.
Otherwise nature will reduce our populations for us and through us as we
fight over resources. Also, everything humans do require energy to
create stable living environments. This creates heat. No matter how efficient
we are, how do we get rid of the cumulative effects of heat on our planet?
The only I can think of is to turn the whole planet into a closed system
that is optimized for humans, by sinking heat into space, fixing populations,
and recycling on the molecular level. Of course if the powers that be
are more concerned with maintaining their wealth and power culture than
the general safety of the rest of the world population, they will instigate conflicts
and expend greater numbers of people to shore up their culture of privilege
as long as they can. This is not a humane solution. The humane solution is
to get the wealthy and the privileged to understand that it is in the best
interest of all of humanity that their leadership must mobilize on a war
like footing to invest in educating everyone to pull together and systematically
solve our environment by turning our consumption culture to
a user culture by creating objects and services that are inherently recyclable
with a minimal amount of energy. If possible develop things we need
made out of materials that are more biological and go through their own ‘life’
cycle along with its use. After their use they are biologically broken down
and re-synthesized using sustainable biological processes.
Largely replacing the inorganic with the organic.
We also need to to accelerate ways of hardening our own biology,
to make it more efficient in terms of minimizing the consumption of
food and water, and more resistant to temperature changes and
competing parasites and diseases. Natural selection without massive conscious
intervention simply will not work if we want to survive as a stable whole.
But this is also not a sure thing, because of unintended consequences.
But what is the humane alternative?
Great to see the Marxists/Statists are still alive and well… This video is pure garbage and the product of George Soros funding.
Hey William, you fascist, just when are you planning on enslaving, and massacring all those people in order to “reduce heat” on the world. You a freaking wannabe tyranny bud, just like the other tyrants that have reaped havoc upon the world numerous times in the past (Stalin, Mao, Hitler ring a bell?)
Notice how easy it is for mere pessimism to turn into de-humanizing propoganda that gives people in positions of power the right to destroy things, people, human activity, and prosperity. Wake up you morons before you commit suicide!
This video is a heinous big lie perpetrated upon unwitting drones.
You’re absolutely right this video isn’t science or economics, it’s political claptrap.
One only need listen to the collected works of the late George Carlin and you will be properly educated in all things Stuffia.
Angry much?
It’s so nice that you have shared this video. But do the politicians think that is all the way we have to be dealt with all the resources and all the stuffs around us ? If everybody couldn’t stop wondering about all the stuffs like you, how best it could haven been ?
Anyways thanks Annie !!!
‘The Story of Stuff’ ROCKS. Annie Leonard and her team are friggin’ BRILLIANT.
Actually, this video was disproven by (among other things) its own footnotes. Lee Doren does a good job explaining it in detail on his youtube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5uJgG05xUY
total socialist propaganda, oats for the sheeple to feed on. For the computer. good of the world’s people? Give me a break. You NewWorld Order idiotd never cease to amaze me. You are just as consumption oriented as the rest. Do you live in a house? Do you drive a car? Do you wear leather (shoes, bags, jackets)? Do you dine out? Obviously you use a computer. Do you have a refrigerator, a washer and dryer, a toaster or a microwave? Are you willing to give up your modern convieniences for the “greater good” of “humanity”? I thought not. Hypocrits! Sit on your comfy sofa, drink a Coca-Cola and then bitch about consumption. Do you buy pre-packaged food? Sure you do. You belong to a consumption-oriented society! Take your hypocrisy and your socialist-communist ideologies and go bark up another tree. You talk, talk, talk, your lips move, but all I hear is blah, blah, blah!