Task 5: Week 7 Reflection

This weeks video was 'The story of stuff' by Annie Leonard. This video tells of how our products we buy. That is, our stuff, moves through a system. She initially explains this system as a linear path starting from extraction, going through production, distribution, consumption and disposal. She then breaks to us that the system is in crisis. Why? Because its a linear system in our finate world. We are then taken through all these steps and explained the problems with them. How we dont have enough resources, how we waste too much. How we put stupidly toxic chemicals into our everyday products. And how the government is being taken over by big corperations instead of taking care of the people. At the end of the runthrough of the 5 steps of the linear system, she explains that there is another way of dealing with stuff. To change our system in crisis into an effective system. Chaning the linear system into a circular one that utilises sustainability and equity. Using things like renewable energy to stem the waste on the planet and help alieviate the pressures on the world that come with chaning climate.
All in all, this was a very interesting and enlightening talk that opened my eyes and ears to the relative issues concerned with producing products and how to deal with them.