Story of Stuff - 10.09.2014

This documentary is about a simple question 'Where does our stuff come from and where does it go? '
But if you look closer to the question it's not simple at all, it contains a whole  long hidden Story,  the Story of Stuff.

This is the cycle of material economy. It is about producing, buying and consuming things. But we are running out of resources, and the probleme is that we actually don't use as much as we produce. So we are cutting down OUR environment to only put it in the bin after 6 months. This is waste of resources and money and work and time. But that is not everything, we are also polluting OUR world with chemicals that we put into OUR stuff. We are harming ourselves by bringing toxic into our home and our bodies. Now also babies get toxic through milk. Is that what we want?  
The thing is that we need to start to saving more and to recycle more. Think before buying waste into our homes. Do I really need this or do I through it away after 2 weeks?

The important thing of this documentary is that people see how badly we affect our lives . This documentary gives us honest and true facts that (hopefully) make us feel guilty and responsibel. We should be aware of the value of an object. It takes much work and effort from other people to make it, even though it could be a low price.

Before watching the video, I knew that we, humans, buy and waste much. But I didn't know that we wasting SO much! Every child knows that we are destroying our environment ourselves and therefore our resources. But not every child knows that they are playing with  chemically - toxic toys.
I never liked that human cutting down the world only for stuff that makes them happy for a short time. My opinion always was that:

"Things that you really need for surviving or for a normal day life you can still use. You can buy everything what you REALLY need. But if you buy to much stuff for only a short entertainment, then it's a really stupid action. It's wasting money! Money for that my parents need to do all the hard work. I am/was a child like everybody else. And I liked to have many toys and I really had many- more than a kindergarden. But my parents taught me and my brother about to saving money for a better use. They told me about the third world and I can't waste more money when I think about people who can't afford a good meal to eat. My parents also taught me to understand und feel how hard these people need to work to make stuff for us. I needed to understand the value of the things I have - and I understood.
It makes me crazy when I saw a whole mountain gone. My own very eyes saw in Viet Nam a beautiful mountain gone. It hurts so much to lose every time a bit of nature in the world."

 

 

I learned new things from this documentary such as:

 

• From 100% that we bought we only use 1%. The 99% goes after 6 month into the bin.
• Nowdays things are designed dumb, so that they quickly break. Therefore people will need to buy a new one. That is devilish clever.
• Perceived obsolescence plays a big job. People always want to be cool - mode. "If he has this cool iphone 5s I also need one." But it's not as good and valuable as the old things.
• But advertisments make us to buy it. But when we bought it does it makes us happy?

My opinion only expand. I am terrified by the toxic in and toxic out. I was really upset with the government! How can they only care about money and not about the peoples lives as they supposed to be. The Third World needs help. But how can the government help them? I don't think putting them into a factory is a good idea. What about the toxic? How can we avoid things that are toxic for us when everything is toxic?  How can we persuade the big company not to produce so much useless stuff anymore? Who should persuade them? How can we protect the nature in the world? How can we get more resources? How can we tell the world to save and not to buy?

 



 

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