Have you ever wondered about where your “stuff” comes from? Why you buy it? Where it goes when you’re done with it?
Then The Story of Stuff is for you.
This little film will give you a very biased look at the “materials economy” and how it’s destroying our lives. The cartoons are adorable, the message important and the ideas disturbing.
MrPages was most disturbed by the “externalized costs” of merchandise – the fact that we pay low prices because others are paying the actual prices; others being people in third world countries who are paying with their homes, their children and their lives. He’s seen it first hand.
I myself suddenly realized that information junkie though I am, sometimes I don’t pay enough attention to the whole process. Where exactly did my new bed sheets come from? Where was the cotton grown? Did a small child have to pick it? What kind of factory processed it? Did they pour lots of chemicals into the ditch? Do I know? Do I care?
So over the next while, the WonderfulPages family will be trying to be more deliberate in our consumer choices. We’re going to try to pay more attention to “our stuff.” We’re going to try to buy less of it (although we already do this), we’re going to try to make better choices on what we do buy, and we’re going to try to pay more attention to who exactly our choices impact. Nothing like a gargantuan challenge!
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