The best video I've ever seen about mankind's destruction of nature, "The Story of stuffs." Look Annie, you went deep into the question of the destruction of nature by the greed of the great corporations of the world and by the inhuman capitalist countries, particularly yours. It changed my way of looking at things. Congratulations! Brazil - São Paulo
Loved this video content. Only issue I faced was. I had a Samsung cooking range. One of the burners failed. I look up Samsung and they do not make the part anymore (because they want you to buy new stuff else they’ll be out of business), but I did find a parts source and the cost of part: 275$, cost of labor 100$ and service call charge 75$ so all put together I might have ended up paying 450$. And in future if the other 3 burners fail it’s going to be approximately 450 x 3, if the grill fails that’s I don’t know how much. So I ended up throwing the cooking range and for a new one for 900$. It’s helplessness but had to buy new. We need a way to recycle harmful chemicals. Salvaging can help to some extent only. And if I didn’t have TV, I probably wouldn’t have known or seen your program on TV. But I do agree that nothing should be wasted and use stuff to the max where possible.
I changed my way of living too because of watching Annie's videos about 10 years ago. I found it funny the college professor said if you keep making films, I'll be out of a job. We need to wake up to that truth too. The internet can teach you almost everything college can teach you for mere pennies. Gone are the days where we need a college degree to be successful. Another documentary called College Conspiracy is good for exposing those truths. I am now a more minimalistic person and waste not in my home.
A dozen years later and we're even WORSE than we were when it came out 😞 And STILL, no one speaks about the damage that factory farming does to our planet, not even to mention the lives of the animals involved.
When Annie mentions that people aren't happy even when they have more stuff than before, I get the picture, as I am a researcher in the field of environment. However, someone not familiar with environmental issues would expect a 'face' with a 'name' to come in front of their eyes to 'imagine' what does 'having more stuff but being less happy' really looks like. A movie with story revolving around characters indulging in consumerism can make the people understand the issues better. I would like to know if someone is interested in such a project...
This video is amziing and the project the story of stuff is so good!! the problem is the comunication.... for example Im just learning englush and I tried 2 understand what she says couse she is so wonderful.. Im interesting about that!! but she needs to get more translaters to spanish people even to others languajes!!
How does one get a degree from Cornell by taking the final classes online from a different university and a local college in CA? Seems to be a cop-out and done by bending the rules. I walk through the Yale campus on a weekly basis and attend lectures. Does this entitle me to a degree from Blue? Or Cal Tech? Yes, I'm stretching the point.
She mentions public health at 08:55. I often think about how much of the American's tax payers dollars, actually more debt, is spent on your military, yet the average American can go bankrupt during a hospital stay...goodbye house. Is that what anybody elsewhere would call a model society? And why is the average American so against public health care. They got it just about everywhere else and you would not believe the world class care we get for free other than maybe our higher taxes. You'd sooner spent it on the military. Dumb! Whoa, I just had to edit...at 15:00 Costa Rica abolished their military and funneled that money into schools, health care, etc. What a concept!
I really enjoyed that video clip, so much so, I'll repost my thought from another YT clip of that video. Consumerism? Well I must be a marketing type's worst nightmare because I am, in comparison to the average North American, as anti-consumerism as one can get, All those flyers that come to the door and I mean talk about piles of paper ever week, go right into the paper recycling box. I still have a tube TV (14 years old), a tube PC monitor (15 years old) and just about everything else that old. Stop buying stuff to substitute for your unhappy lives and to impress others. The US is not a model society. Yup, they and other similar nations go everywhere else, rape them of their resources and then you wonder why a good chunk of the planet hates you. Well duhhh! I could go on. I can't buy that part that 99% of stuff is trashed within 6 months. That cannot be possible. Maybe because I keep stuff for years and I mean like 10+ years. You people have to stop playing "the game" and being a "slave" to the system, you poor lemmings. I'm sorry, I have to post again now that I am at the end of this video. This is so perfect. Who wrote this. Did they use the Vulcan mind meld on me while I was sleeping. And they are right about US vs Euro shopping. My ex-girlfriend who came from Europe to work here went back after less than two years. She couldn't stand the mentality of the people here. "All you people think about what you own, how many cars you have, your swimming pool, etc." She basically thought we were empty inside and she is right.
I cannot answer for others, but I don't BELIEVE Annie Leonard. I AGREE with her because I have taken the time and effort to vet her ideas against the evidence available to me from the real world. It is lazy to simply reject someone's ideas because they are not similar to your own, without first evaluating those ideas rationally.
At 31.00 min the problem is that often for good reasons, not everyone want's to share! Not everyone wants there children, or abused girlfriends to get into the 'communal' hottub with people like Noah S. who base their lives on Steven King novels, Penthouse magazines and Pacman games. Hence not everyone wants to live a condominium type of existence and hence yearn to achieve private possessions. It is the old choice of paradigms between the individual versus the communal life - Rugged individual or Aquarius communal hippy?
there is still aluminum in European cosmetic products and micro plastic in tooth paste etc....it's very difficult even in Europe to buy cosmetics without toxins....in addition plastic bottles have increased and a lot of low price shops with chinese plastic products that smell a lot like toxic chemicals have opened the last years .....so I can nmot see that Europe is better than the U.S.
I cannot tell from the small video but is that bottled water. Are those lamps inside in the background on during the day? Are those overstuffed chairs made of leather or artificial "bonded" leather, either way an overuse of material or a toxic material. Are those diamonds in her ear lobes? The windows appear to be fixed, preventing natural, non-mechanical ventilation. Why are the lights outside on during the day? A bit hypocritical.
howard raabe that is a glass bottle, and whose to say they aren't using solar panels to power that building. Glass is recyclable and only a tiny percentage of plastic is able to be recycled.
this woman keeps saying that we use too much, but you already stopped to think about the amount of things she spent and consumed to make this video that will not change anything in the world
The story of stuff made me rethink my life.
But did it make a change?
A. C. E. what do u gonna do if u are surrounded with those things , even if u wanted to make a change u’d need other ‘’stuff’’
Annie, you r brilliant, simply awesome. thanks for instilling values in people to live eco-friendly life.
I've been showing this video to my Grade 8 Economics kids for the last 6 years.
Annie you inspire me to action. Thank you beautiful soul. Your Gaia energy contributes to saving our precious world.
The best video I've ever seen about mankind's destruction of nature, "The Story of stuffs." Look Annie, you went deep into the question of the destruction of nature by the greed of the great corporations of the world and by the inhuman capitalist countries, particularly yours. It changed my way of looking at things. Congratulations! Brazil - São Paulo
Thank you, so much for saying this.
So inspiring!!!! Thank you!!! I'm from china. I want to share this with all our people.
Loved this video content.
Only issue I faced was. I had a Samsung cooking range. One of the burners failed. I look up Samsung and they do not make the part anymore (because they want you to buy new stuff else they’ll be out of business), but I did find a parts source and the cost of part: 275$, cost of labor 100$ and service call charge 75$ so all put together I might have ended up paying 450$. And in future if the other 3 burners fail it’s going to be approximately 450 x 3, if the grill fails that’s I don’t know how much. So I ended up throwing the cooking range and for a new one for 900$. It’s helplessness but had to buy new. We need a way to recycle harmful chemicals. Salvaging can help to some extent only. And if I didn’t have TV, I probably wouldn’t have known or seen your program on TV. But I do agree that nothing should be wasted and use stuff to the max where possible.
I changed my way of living too because of watching Annie's videos about 10 years ago. I found it funny the college professor said if you keep making films, I'll be out of a job. We need to wake up to that truth too. The internet can teach you almost everything college can teach you for mere pennies. Gone are the days where we need a college degree to be successful. Another documentary called College Conspiracy is good for exposing those truths. I am now a more minimalistic person and waste not in my home.
People like Annie Leonard should have more power in the society. She is great!!!. She and her message.
Cool how you can see the sun set throughout the duration of this video.
A dozen years later and we're even WORSE than we were when it came out 😞
And STILL, no one speaks about the damage that factory farming does to our planet, not even to mention the lives of the animals involved.
When Annie mentions that people aren't happy even when they have more stuff than before, I get the picture, as I am a researcher in the field of environment. However, someone not familiar with environmental issues would expect a 'face' with a 'name' to come in front of their eyes to 'imagine' what does 'having more stuff but being less happy' really looks like. A movie with story revolving around characters indulging in consumerism can make the people understand the issues better. I would like to know if someone is interested in such a project...
This video is amziing and the project the story of stuff is so good!! the problem is the comunication.... for example Im just learning englush and I tried 2 understand what she says couse she is so wonderful.. Im interesting about that!! but she needs to get more translaters to spanish people even to others languajes!!
consuming less and recycling will never be enough if we keep multiplying. ......
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Gracias.
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How does one get a degree from Cornell by taking the final classes online from a different university and a local college in CA? Seems to be a cop-out and done by bending the rules. I walk through the Yale campus on a weekly basis and attend lectures. Does this entitle me to a degree from Blue? Or Cal Tech? Yes, I'm stretching the point.
Oh ! It was raining when they do this
She mentions public health at 08:55. I often think about how much of the American's tax payers dollars, actually more debt, is spent on your military, yet the average American can go bankrupt during a hospital stay...goodbye house. Is that what anybody elsewhere would call a model society? And why is the average American so against public health care. They got it just about everywhere else and you would not believe the world class care we get for free other than maybe our higher taxes. You'd sooner spent it on the military. Dumb! Whoa, I just had to edit...at 15:00 Costa Rica abolished their military and funneled that money into schools, health care, etc. What a concept!
I really enjoyed that video clip, so much so, I'll repost my thought from another YT clip of that video.
Consumerism? Well I must be a marketing type's worst nightmare because I am, in comparison to the average North American, as anti-consumerism as one can get, All those flyers that come to the door and I mean talk about piles of paper ever week, go right into the paper recycling box. I still have a tube TV (14 years old), a tube PC monitor (15 years old) and just about everything else that old. Stop buying stuff to substitute for your unhappy lives and to impress others. The US is not a model society. Yup, they and other similar nations go everywhere else, rape them of their resources and then you wonder why a good chunk of the planet hates you. Well duhhh! I could go on.
I can't buy that part that 99% of stuff is trashed within 6 months. That cannot be possible. Maybe because I keep stuff for years and I mean like 10+ years. You people have to stop playing "the game" and being a "slave" to the system, you poor lemmings.
I'm sorry, I have to post again now that I am at the end of this video. This is so perfect. Who wrote this. Did they use the Vulcan mind meld on me while I was sleeping. And they are right about US vs Euro shopping. My ex-girlfriend who came from Europe to work here went back after less than two years. She couldn't stand the mentality of the people here. "All you people think about what you own, how many cars you have, your swimming pool, etc." She basically thought we were empty inside and she is right.
a fair solution for the future, Inheritance cap discussed:
The Change
SHE'S AMAZING!!!!! :D
I cannot answer for others, but I don't BELIEVE Annie Leonard. I AGREE with her because I have taken the time and effort to vet her ideas against the evidence available to me from the real world. It is lazy to simply reject someone's ideas because they are not similar to your own, without first evaluating those ideas rationally.
At 31.00 min the problem is that often for good reasons, not everyone want's to share! Not everyone wants there children, or abused girlfriends to get into the 'communal' hottub with people like Noah S. who base their lives on Steven King novels, Penthouse magazines and Pacman games. Hence not everyone wants to live a condominium type of existence and hence yearn to achieve private possessions. It is the old choice of paradigms between the individual versus the communal life - Rugged individual or Aquarius communal hippy?
I cut back buying unnecessary things after reading "The story of stuff".
7 300 000 000 people today 1 000 000 000 every decade that's it!
An inheritance CAP fixes everything. see it debated, and be haunted by the simplicity of this one rule tweak we can demand! Occupying Chairlifts
Check out out "will work for free 2013" and "technological unemployment 60 minutes"
Notice how they both are wearing thick soled shoes..
so what?
y este tambien
there is still aluminum in European cosmetic products and micro plastic in tooth paste etc....it's very difficult even in Europe to buy cosmetics without toxins....in addition plastic bottles have increased and a lot of low price shops with chinese plastic products that smell a lot like toxic chemicals have opened the last years .....so I can nmot see that Europe is better than the U.S.
Talk about nonessential stuff. Cosmetics
I cannot tell from the small video but is that bottled water. Are those lamps inside in the background on during the day? Are those overstuffed chairs made of leather or artificial "bonded" leather, either way an overuse of material or a toxic material. Are those diamonds in her ear lobes? The windows appear to be fixed, preventing natural, non-mechanical ventilation. Why are the lights outside on during the day? A bit hypocritical.
+howard raabe , you need good lighting for filming. i was gona get annoyed with your negativity, but i guess you are old.
+howard raabe That's so childish, and if you have a message you should present that instead.
howard raabe that is a glass bottle, and whose to say they aren't using solar panels to power that building. Glass is recyclable and only a tiny percentage of plastic is able to be recycled.
maybe you are if you believe anything that she saids in the "Story of Stuff"
Google "The Price Of Precious" to see what is happening in the Congo. All those resources to get a new phone that does nothing more than the last one.
this woman keeps saying that we use too much, but you already stopped to think about the amount of things she spent and consumed to make this video that will not change anything in the world
If it is not changing something for you, that doesn't mean it's not working, it means you chose to criticize instead of changing your behaviour. :)