https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM&pp=ygUSdGhlIHN0b3J5IG9mIHN0dWZm
#TheStoryOfStuff #Capitalism #planet #consumption
(some language may be outdated)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM&pp=ygUSdGhlIHN0b3J5IG9mIHN0dWZm
#TheStoryOfStuff #Capitalism #planet #consumption
(some language may be outdated)
Yes, what a great film #TheAgeOfStupid is! For your audience Bram you might well like to also tack on this ten-minute update that the director #FrannyArmstrong made ten years on, in 2019:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqHKYwxEIRA
#TheStoryOfStuff springs to mind immediately on the degrowth front. 20 mins, deeply accessible and brilliantly presented:
https://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of/
And for community action focus rather than big policy/tech, #InTransition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFQFBmq7X84
Excellent and pretty shocking story about the introduction of plastic bottles. The problem persists. #TheStoryOfStuff
https://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/exposed-how-coke-killed-the-refillable-bottle/
Companies will NOT change on their own! They will continue to cry 'personal responsibility'. Both are necessary.
Coke Knew Their Plastic Would Trash the Planet…And Did It Anyway Once upon a time, Coke’s bottles were an environmentalist’s dream: stylish glass bottles washed and reused over and over, leaving no pollution. But, today Coca Cola is the world’s biggest plastic producer and polluter. What happened? Watch our 12-minute investigative short documentary and find…
This was no ordinary campaign: waged over the course of eight years and led by a remarkable coalition of local, regional and national groups and individuals, it transcended the fairly mundane facts of the case to become something bigger – a metaphorical fight about who controls our water.
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. ...
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. ...
Very good and inspiering!
So nice to have #TheStoryOfStuff in the fediverse!