onsdag 17 november 2010

My thought after viewing The Story of Stuff

It was an interesting and touching movie. But on the other hand it feels like propaganda, all those numbers she mentions and so on. But I think this is a good way to make people react and may think about what they either buying stuff or how the recycle or not recycle trash they are about to throw away. Do I really need this new stuff or not, just because it is the latest updates or what so ever.

The problem is that it is easy to say I will change my routines and be a better person for the environment, but it is hard to actually do it. You maybe succeed, but as Annie said “this becoming a culture to buy things. The companies figuring how to sell so much as possible and make the profit as big as possible with updates or changing the design”. It is hard to change that culture, don’t think people actually care about the environment even if they say they do. And the company will not produce less, the companies want to make as big profit as possible. Well, they could invest in better system which gives less pollution and follow the rules of fair trade and so on. Better technologies will make the possibilities better in the future. I don’t know if it was in the 50’s they said that the resources will run out in 50 years, but today with better technologies than in the 50’s we noticed, that is not the case… But the development must go faster, especially in the third world countries and big industry countries as USA and China.