STUFF
(Posted 2010-08-09 18:09:05 by ArchPaladin)

Today I came across The Story of Stuff [
http://www.storyofstuff.org/index.php ] [storyofstuff.org]

It's an interesting 20-minute video on the nature of production, from
extraction of resources all the way to disposal of consumer goods.  The
overall theme is how unsustainable this is, how it should be fixed, and
that everyone should get involved to fix it.  It's very
source-material-light, so not a very good presentation to the highly
skeptical or to those who have sharply contrasting political or economic
viewpoints, but for those who are open to the ideas presented, it is a good
watch and entertaining.  Very neat animation too.  Personally I wonder if a
post-materialistic society will ever be realized, and if so, if a major
upheaval is required to do it.

Incidentally, the video talks briefly about dioxins [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_dibenzodioxins ]
[wikipedia.org] - a very harmful chemical often caused by waste disposal. 
Reading up at the link I just gave, I found it very interesting that the
major source of dioxin intake is meat intake.  See this chart. [
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dioxin_chart.png ] [wikimedia.org] 
Score one more point for living primarily as a vegetarian.

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