The Story of Stuff

Have you ever wondered where all the stuff you have comes from? Activists from the Tide
Foundation and Funders Workgroup created a twenty minute video to explain just that!



Chronicling the extraction, processing, transportation and disposal of "stuff", this video gives us some insight into product manufacturing worldwide. It's aim: to demonstrate the unstable and unsustainable modes of production that are used to create all this "stuff".

Sustainable development is a big issue these days, and now that we are feeling the credit crunch, more and more of us are starting to notice the inevitable failures that our system has willingly created. Someone had to question the dangers of debt, the potential pitfalls of lending money with exorbitantly high interest rates with the laughable expectation that the return would be made. So Let us consider United States in particular wastes 27% of food available for consumption, and makes up less than 1/20th of the world's population. Furthermore, the United States is also the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. The fundamental problem at hand is that our governments are REFUSING to take the necessary pre-cautionary measures to prevent a global meltdown, as we stand by by idle. Canada is not much better off, particularly when we consider the fact that we USED to be the BEST place on Earth to live, and now according to the United Nations Quality of Life Index the best place in the world to live in right now is..........NORWAY???? Ask your friends, bet you they would have had no clue, and keep in mind they have been on top for the past SIX years!

We've got to take matters into our own hand, if competition drives the economy, let the spirit of competition guide us towards doing what is best for the world.

Check out my next post to find out how you can contribute to the solution.