The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change
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- ISBN13: 9781439125663
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We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and making 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. excise, we would need three to five planets!
This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to make the Internet film sensation The Tale of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 million times by people around the world. In her sweeping, groundbreaking book of the same name, Leonard tracks the life of the Stuff we use every day—where our cotton T-shirts, laptop computers, and aluminum cans come from, how they are produced, distributed, and consumed, and where they go when we throw them out. Like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, The Tale of Stuff is a landmark book that will change the way people reflect—and the way they live.
Leonard’s message is incredibly clear: we have too much Stuff, and too much of it is toxic. Outlining the five stages of our consumption-driven economy—from extraction through production, distribution, consumption, and disposal—she vividly illuminates its frightening repercussions. Visiting garbage dumps and factories around the world, Leonard reveals the right tale behind our possessions—why it’s cheaper to replace a broken TV than to fix it; how the promotion of “perceived obsolescence” encourages us to toss out everything from shoes to cell phones while they’re still in perfect shape; and how factory workers in Haiti, mine workers in Congo, and everyone who lives and works within this system pay for our cheap goods with their health, safety, and quality of life. Meanwhile we, as patrons, are compromising our health and well-being, whether it’s through neurotoxins in our pillows or lead leaching into our kids’ food from their lunchboxes—and all this Stuff isn’t even building us more pleased! We work hard so we can buy Stuff that we quickly throw out, and then
we want new Stuff so we work harder and have no time to delight in all our Stuff. . . . With staggering revelations about the economy, the environment, and cultures around the world, alongside tales from her own life and work, Leonard demonstrates that the drive for a “growth at all costs” economy fuels a cycle of production, consumption, and disposal that is killing us.
It is a system in crisis, but Annie Leonard shows us that this is not the way things have to be. It’s within our power to stop the environmental hurt, social injustice, and health hazards caused by polluting production and excessive consumption, and Leonard shows us how. Expansive, galvanizing, and sobering yet optimistic, The Tale of Stuff transforms how we reflect about our lives and our relationship to the planet.
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Don’t waste your money on this book, its nothing more then far left indoctrination with misquoted statistics, basic math mistakes and straw man opinion throughout. The leader has about as much grasp on basic economics and supply/demand systems as a 4 year ancient. I cannot but judge the willful logical mistakes rampant throughout this book was anything but intentional, either to push a radical environmental agenda or to just make a buck, the same thing she scoffs at anyone else doing.
My only question for the leader is how many resources did you consume to make this book, how many trees died so it could be printed, how many corporations aided you in publishing it?
So by all means potential reader, if you’ve not had your fill of hypocritical drivel then buy and delight in!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a fantastic book. It’s a stopgap that we can look to until we figure out how to coax some of the 5 or 6 billion excess people who, by their sheer numbers, threaten the planet, to step aside.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Like another reviewer, I saw the leader on the Colbert report and I bought this book as an [...] audiobook–for the first time ever, I don’t judge I can compel myself to end one of my audiobooks. From the very first chapter, I have a multitude of complaints. #1–the leader cannot capture your attention–she is so dull. #2–she speaks to her readers as if we were in grade school #3–I have learned absolutely nothing of interest so far from this book. She has no appealing insights whatsoever. The topic was attractive to me, otherwise I wouldn’t have bought the book, but I reflect you will be really disappointed and find yourself struggling to get beyond the first 20 pages.
Since we all have a limited amount of hours in our life, why waste them on this book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This is one of the most thought provoking books dealing with excessive consumption in the U.S. and the impact on the environment, our health, and the economy that I have read in a long time. I am not adage it is the final word on such matters or even that it is the most scholarly. I am adage it is written in a highly readable style that not only provides ample evidence of the consumption problem but also provides what appear to be some common sense solutions that just might result in less waste, consumption, and improvement in our health and economy.
The leader discusses what she perceives as the five stages of our consumption driven economy-extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal-and in a reader friendly style points out the consequences and repercussions of such a life style. She does not preach or provide touchy-feely solutions but rather combines personal experiences with scientific knowledge to show that the U.S. lifestyle based on consumption has, is, and will continue to lead to the degradation of our environment. Whether one agrees with the leader or not one thing seems pretty clear: We cannot continue to sacrifice our planet on the altar of economic development lacking expecting some serious consequences. What this book does is provide a clear, entertaining (lacking being cutesy) discussion of the problem and what the leader argues are sustainable, doable solutions.
The book may not be the final word on the theme but it is definately recommended as a must read for persons readers’ concerned about Stuff and what it means for the environment.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
A fantastic book and I certainly, certainly recommend it to everyone. The message is priceless: stop consuming so much. Live simply so that others may simple live. Thanks for writing a book with a message that everyone needs to hear!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5