There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben
The story of stuff is about Annie Leonard telling people to stop buying things. She is saying this because buying stuff is harmful to the enviroment. I totally agree with her and I feel that everyone should agree. It isn't the buying that is harmful to the enviroment but its the process of making the product that its harmful to the enviroment. The story of stuff is also about how we throw things into the rubbish dumbs and those rubbish will get thrown into a place where all the rubbish goes. Once the rubbish piles up, chemicals will go up into the sky and affect Earth's atmosphere. With Earth's atmosphere affected, more radiation from the sun can get in and eventually affect us.
This video also connects to the theme "What is worth fighting for?" as it tells us to fight for the enviroment, fight for nature and most importantly, fight off temptation that is causing us to buy stuff and harming the enviroment. Why must we fight for the enviroment? Because the enviroment is part of our Earth and Earth is our home, shouldn't we treat our home with care?
Think about it, where does things get created? How is it created? Things are created in the factory and it is created by machines with chemicals being placed in them. Factories let out gas which pollutes the enviroment. And of course it is a very bad thing. Oil spills are mainly from factories but part of it is also from ships that throw rubbish into the sea. Oil spills not only dirties the sea but also kills the animals that are in it. Examples are fishes suffocating because the oil is preventing oxygen to go in. Annie Leonard is telling us not to buy things not because she doesn't want us to have things but because the outcome of it is bad.
I feel that people should be more considerate for nature. We should also be more considerate for ourselves and this is because if the earth's atmosphere is shrinking, sun radiation and meteorites can hit earth and the outcome will be terrible. That is also one of the point of this video, to warn people how dangerous buying stuff can do to the enviroment. If people do not put in the effort to save our world, then there would be no world. After reading this, I hope that people would be more considerate for the enviroment and for ourselves and stop buying.
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