Current consumption patterns are unsustainable and must be changed.
Did you know:
- Only 1% of the stuff bought in North America is still in use 6 months after purchase?
- Our values around consumption didn't materialise from nowhere. Shortly after WW2, the value of 'consumption' was promoted: "Our enormously productive economy... demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction in consumption... we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever accelerated rate..." Well it seems we bought into that!
- It's time new values were created. Please watch 'The Story of Stuff' video, find out what you can do and spread the word.
"From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever."
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