Aug192008
Environmentalism, capitalism and stuff
Filed under Uncategorized by andrew wolfe at 3:30 pm
I can not recommend The Story of Stuff highly enough. I urge everyone to watch it, with your children if you have any.
In a nutshell, Annie Leonard’s film and website explain how our socioeconomic system, in which most of us toil for the benefit of a few, will lead us all to ruin if left unchecked. Some would even say it’s a sin.
Leonard’s message is dire, and her tone can sound strident and simplistic (the latter is deliberate and effective, I think), but her video is leavened with humor, her statements and sources are well-documented, and her overall message is one of hope. In the words of Joe Hill, “Don’t waste any time in mourning; organize.”
Here’s a sample quote from the video:
“We take our pillows, we douse them in a neurotoxin and then we bring them home and put our heads on them for eight hours a night to sleep. Now, I don’t know, but it seems to me that in this country with so much potential, we could think of a better way to stop our heads from catching on fire at night."
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