The history of stuff
The stuffs has a sistem: The economy of stuffs
Extraction
Is a elegant form to say exploit the naturals resources
This is the first limit, we are exhaust resources
In the lasts three
Production
In this part we use the materials that we put in the extraction and we use energi to combine with toxic chemicals to produce contaminated productes.
Today we use 100.000 contaminated products
The breast milk is the product with the highest level of the different toxics. Our babys recibed the highest level of toxic chemicals.
In the production the workers are the most afected, because they inhale the toxic chemicals.
Distribution
The distribution is sell as soon as possible the toxic products
We're not really paying for what we buy.
Entrepreneurs outsource real production costs
consumption
we have become a nation of consumers.
99% of the products we buy after six months we have already thrown them away to buy new ones.
An American uses twice as many products as 50 years ago.
Victor lebow say (summarised)
that consuming is the future and that we need to consume faster and faster.
President Eisenhower said the end of our economy is to produce more consumer goods.
perceived obsolescence
tries to make you see that you have to buy something you don't need.
programmed obsolescence
designed to be discarded
Discard
In the U.S. every citizen produces 2.5 kg of garbage a day.
All that trash goes to a big hole in the ground or if not first it goes to an incinerator and then to a big fill hole in the ground.
This process pollutes the air, soil, water and contributes to climate change.
this process is very harmful as it generates new supertoxins (dioxins)
Each bucket of water we generate is produced 60 to generate everything from that bucket.
Recycling is efficacious, but even if we recycled 100% of our garbage we would not solve this problem.
Much of the garbage cannot be recycled because of its toxics or because it has not been manufactured to be recycled.
The government has the obligation of the help to the people, but later come the business, and the business are more bigs that the government.
Of the one hundred bigest economis, fifty five are business.
The growth of the business has provoked that the government worry more about the business that the people.
final
We must create a new system but one that is not linear but that does not discard either products or people.
There are people who fight to save the forests, for clean production, fighting for labor rights, fair trade, conscious consumption or blocking landfills and incinerators and most importantly they fight for governments to be of the people and for the people.l