The story of stuff. Comments.
Annie makes a very good presentation of environmental, political and social problem with vivid animation. I had read a little bit about sustainability but this presentation is clear and full of examples. It’s such true about all our system.
How do you find the example with computer? It was difference in a small detail, but you can not just to change the detail you need to buy a new one and throw away the old model? It’s such true that nowadays it’s cheaper to buy a new staff then repair the old one. The good example is 10 SEK products. The whole shop is full households’ products like cups, glasses, wisps, knifes which cost only 10 SEK. Can you imagine the knife which cost 10 SEK? I guess it has not good quality, but it cost almost nothing.
It’s tragically to realize what kind of food we are eating. It’s tragically to realize that women’s milk has the highest level of toxic contaminants. It’s ironically but even the rich population with millions income is affected. We don’t know how Holland’s tomato, chips, coca-cola and candy “Hubabubba” will influence our children. It’s difficult to motivate child to eat healthy food because children are social creatures, they are eating with their friends in Mc Donalds and are looking on TV advertising. It’s impossible to isolate the child, but it’s possible to educate and explain.
That’s why I like this presentation. I was reading that in American schools this presentation was showing to children and there are parents who are saying that it is anti-capitalistic. Yes, this presentation about minimising consumption is anti-capitalistic. But capitalism is not the ideal form of leading society. This presentation is a great way to raise consciousness about an issue that affects us all. Annie made the proposition how we can improve the system through recycling, minimising consuming and eating home made food. What about the new model of 4 R: reduce, reuse, recycle and relax which can be the basis of our life style?
10SEK products will of course give you the quality you paid for. It will break and it will probably break really fast. Changing this is difficult but maybe something has to be done with the way we consume. And I agree that it must be difficult to protect your children from unhealthy food and toxic products. It is a big problem.
SvaraRaderaHowever I do not agree with you that capitalism (democrazy) is not the ideal form of government. It is after all a government by the people for the people. Sure it got flaws but It’s the best of all bad alternatives. Therefore in a way making it ideal.
Capitalism is not evil. I do care about the environment and if this presentation raises consciousness and change our demands it will also change the output from companies. I believe the best way to change something is to change the mind of the population. Educate them and explain to them why something needs to be changed.
The alternative is to outlaw and forbid things which leads us to other government forms like Communism or other totalitarian forms of government.
I think it's very important to consider what we eat and what we give for kind of food, and values, to our children, the next generation of the society. In my family we have always been eating home-cooked meals, every day. And now, even though I'm a student these days, it's important to me to eat home-cooked meals.
SvaraRaderaAnd it's our responsibility what our children will eat.
I think it's worth to spend money on good, ecological food that has not been shipped all over the world. For example, to produce a product in one country, to peel it in another and then packing it in a third, that's absurd!
To buy close-produced food is one way of taking responsibility for ourself, ours children and our environment.