The Story of Stuff

My friend Chris sent me this great little video. It's twenty minutes long and tells the story of stuff from extraction to disposal. Now I know some people might be dismissive of this as just reminding us about what we already know about American consumerism, etc. but I think it's valuable to see things laid out rather than lament in abstraction a reality that we do in fact have some control over. These are big problems, and we may not each have solutions, but we can at least pull back our contributions to this broken system. I'm not ready to give up a lot of my stuff, and likely never will be, but I certainly can be more conscious of how I obtain that stuff and from where, and what I am doing as a citizen to elect people who will affect positive change on this cycle. Or at least who will be less bad than John McCain.