The Story of Stuff

Story of stuff is written and narrated by Annie Leonard. It tackles about critical review of consumerism and its effect on the planet. It offers ideas and delivers information regarding the process of making goods and how our obsession with stuff is trashing the planet. Story of Stuff describes the process in which resources are gathered and removed from the planet in several amounts and. It goes on to explain how the government is behind the manufacturing and production. Finally, it discusses how the most important and influential part of the process, consumerism, leads to the destruction of our environment.

Story of stuff states that people create more than 5 pounds of trash per day and will be equal to almost 5 billion pounds of harmful chemicals released per year in order to produce the goods that we consume.  The scenario led me to think about how much we are affected by those chemicals that we produce and led me to think how the environmental exposure and human diseases are related to each other. Both the environment and the global economy are affected by this widespread consumerism. Due to this, pollution and hazardous waste materials continue to rise, while our natural resources continue to decline.

If consumerism still continue and does not slow down, the natural resources will eventually run out, leaving planet earth and mankind to destruction. Consumerism has come to the result of our natural forests being destroyed. Hundreds of trees will disappear from forest due to people’s greed. Therefore, actions must be done to make differences we need the most and as citizens of this planet, we cannot afford to wait more until it’s too late.

I thought that most of the sights and information in the video was interesting. It was my first time to see it for me I was very shocked to see the current situation that we are facing right now regarding consumerism.  The story of stuff made me stop and think of the future and what will happen and what action are we going to do for our environment and for the people that live. We should always care and start doing appropriate and necessary actions and just because we don’t realize they are suffering doesn't mean that we should not care. I believe that it is my priority to take actions in the future and I will do it helping the environment through activities. Recycling our water bottles, throwing trash in its proper disposal or recycling the paper would help.