The Story of Stuff

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A Message from the Last Spark of Nature

Every day people undergo a specific cycle of buying , consuming and throwing waste products . This has been the ritual inculcated and acclimated to the ordinary people from their egoistic desire to fulfill their physical needs . Underneath this wheel of consumption lies the linear system of economy : extraction , production , distribution consumption and disposal . Within this system are subjects or people that contribute to the rotation of the wheel . They are like interconnected gears that move along with the system . Outside

this system are strong driving forces that continuously make this structure move . They are the government and the incorporation ( Story ' 2008

If one will take a closer look into this diagram , it is noticeable that the main victim here is the nature . What people consume every day comes from the environment . Papers were taken from trees . Minerals and ores were mined from mountains . The problem with this stuff is that many are taken but not all are replaced equally . This then results to a devastated ecology which disrupts the traditional way of living of people within the location . Once disrupted , the inhabitants of that location will seek any means of living , with most of them ended up working in factory

These factories and mining industries aid in converting raw materials into consumer friendly products . Throughout this process of conversion several toxic chemicals are introduced which render some of the products toxic . Moreover , fumes and gases are released throughout the...