The Story Of Stuff

The story of stuff was a video which was made by Annie Leonard that we watched during media class. I really liked the video and learned a lot from it too. I found it to be a really interesting video and I found out about things that I never knew about. The Story of Stuff was a video which tells us about what the big companies are doing to the planet and how are all the things that we use in our daily lives like for example TV’s, radios and etc are made. It also tells us the process of how this is all made and who makes it and what do they get out of it and where does it all go at the end. Annie Leonard tells us that this system is in crisis because it is a linear system and we live on a finite planet and you can not run a linear system on a finite planet. She also says that were running out of stuff because were using too much of it and she said that 80% of the planets original forests are already gone. Another point added in her video was that there is a lot of pollution because of all the products being made. The main thing that she wants to tell us is that we consume too much and we consume more than we need. Another important point is that we are throwing away things that still usable and getting knew ones and a great example of that are clothes. I don’t really agree with all the things that Annie Leonard is telling us but I do agree with some of the things that she said for example I agree that we are using too much and more than we should but I don’t agree with the part that she said that there is a little chip in the computer that they change every year and that is the main thing that screws up the computer like seriously there are so many pieces in the computer and I think that the people who make the computer change a lot of things in the computer not mainly the chip which makes it different. One thing that I really liked in the video was how she made the government look bad and how she was saying that the big corporations are more superior then the government and she also showed us that in a great way by the cartoon sketches. In it the government person was so small and the corporation and companies people were so big and how the government guy was polishing the corporation person’s foot. I think she did a good job there and the government should feel embarrassed. We also saw another video showing some politician and how he was mad about the video and how it was being played in classes all over the country. Overall I’m not sure whether the system is in crisis or not but eventually it will be.