The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard is certainly worth watching. It’s entertaining, well produced, and brings up a number of important point worth starting a conversation over with your friends and family.
However, the video is not without it’s downsides. It’s packed with politically loaded, factually incorrect statements. For every statement about human welfare and market manipulation that had me nodding my head, another naive or ignorant statement made me wince. (For instance, in a segment about planned obsolescence, she stupidly describes the CPU as the only part of a computer that improves each year, ignoring all of the other components in the system that improve each year as well. That’s uneducated misinformation of the same exact kind she rails against from corporations.)
But, on the whole, I think that the video is valuable. Misinformation aside, it’s certainly true that the materials economy is amok and worth scrutiny.
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