La historia de las cosas - Annie Leonard (Completo)
Summary
TLDREl guion explora el ciclo económico de los materiales desde la extracción hasta el descarte, criticando un sistema lineal en un planeta finito. Expone cómo la obsolescencia planificada y la percepción social impulsan una cultura de consumo insostenible, desafiando límites ambientales y afectando la felicidad humana. La narrativa llama a la reflexión y a la acción colectiva para transformar el modelo en uno sostenible, equitativo y basado en la economía circular.
Takeaways
- 🌏 La economía de materiales es un sistema lineal en crisis, que no es sostenible en un planeta finito.
- 🏭 Las corporaciones son más grandes que los gobiernos y su influencia ha cambiado la dinámica de la política y la regulación.
- 🌳 La extracción de recursos naturales está agotando los recursos del planeta y afectando negativamente a las comunidades y el medio ambiente.
- 🔥 La producción de bienes implica el uso de químicos tóxicos, que impactan la salud humana y el medio ambiente.
- 🍼 La exposición a químicos tóxicos es particularmente preocupante para los trabajadores de fábrica y las madres lactantes.
- 🛍️ El consumo masivo y la obsolescencia planificada están impulsados por la industria para mantener el flujo de materiales a través del sistema.
- 📉 El crecimiento del consumo no ha traído mayor felicidad; en realidad, la felicidad nacional ha decaído a pesar de una mayor cantidad de bienes.
- 🗑️ La disposición de los desechos es un problema significativo, ya que la mayoría de los productos terminan en desechos en un corto período de tiempo.
- 🔄 El reciclaje es importante, pero no es suficiente para abordar el núcleo del problema de la sostenibilidad.
- 🌱 Existen alternativas sostenibles basadas en la equidad y la sostenibilidad, que incluyen la química verde, la producción de ciclo cerrado y la energía renovable.
- 🔗 La comprensión de las conexiones entre los diferentes puntos del sistema y la visión de conjunto son cruciales para transformar el sistema.
Q & A
¿Qué es la economía de materiales y cómo se describe en el guion?
-La economía de materiales es un sistema que describe el movimiento de cosas desde la extracción hasta la producción, distribución, consumo y eliminación. Se menciona que este sistema es lineal y está en crisis debido a que no puede funcionar indefinidamente en un planeta finito.
¿Por qué el sistema económico线性 (lineal) se considera una crisis?
-Se considera una crisis porque es un sistema lineal que opera en un planeta finito con recursos limitados. No puede continuar indefinidamente sin impactar negativamente el medio ambiente y las sociedades.
¿Qué es una de las cosas más importantes que falten en la explicación del sistema económico según el guion?
-Una de las cosas más importantes que falta en la explicación es la participación de las personas, que viven y trabajan a lo largo del sistema y que tienen un peso diferenciado en su influencia y poder.
¿Cuál es la relación entre las corporaciones y el gobierno según lo descrito en el guion?
-Según el guion, las corporaciones son más grandes que el gobierno y tienen más poder económico. Esto ha llevado a un cambio en el gobierno, con más preocupación por asegurar que todo salga bien para las corporaciones que para la gente.
¿Qué problemas se mencionan en relación con la extracción de recursos naturales?
-La extracción de recursos naturales se asocia con la deforestación, la destrucción de montañas para obtener metales, el agotamiento del agua y la extinción de animales. Esto lleva a la limitación de recursos, con un tercio del espacio de recursos naturales de la Tierra consumido en las últimas tres décadas.
¿Cómo se describe el consumo en los Estados Unidos en relación con el uso de recursos y la generación de residuos?
-Se describe que los Estados Unidos, con el 5% de la población mundial, usan el 30% de los recursos y generan el 30% de los residuos. Esto es sostenible y contribuye a la crisis del sistema económico lineal.
¿Qué implica la producción de productos con químicos tóxicos y cómo afecta a la salud y el medio ambiente?
-La producción de productos con químicos tóxicos implica el uso de sustancias sintéticas en la manufactura que no han sido completamente probadas para su impacto en la salud. Esto resulta en la acumulación de tóxicos en la cadena alimentaria y en nuestros cuerpos, afectando especialmente a los trabajadores de fábrica y a las mujeres embarazadas.
¿Cuál es la relación entre el consumo y la identidad de las personas en la sociedad actual según el guion?
-Según el guion, la identidad principal de las personas en la sociedad actual se ha convertido en la de consumidores. Nuestro valor se mide por cuánto consumimos y nuestra felicidad parece estar ligada a la cantidad de bienes que adquirimos.
¿Qué estrategias se utilizan para mantener el flujo continuo del consumo según lo descrito en el guion?
-Se utilizan estrategias como el obsolescencia planificada, que significa diseñar productos para que se vuelvan inútiles rápidamente, y la obsolescencia percibida, que nos convence para desechear cosas útiles mediante cambios en la apariencia o la moda.
¿Cómo se relaciona el crecimiento económico con el consumo de bienes de consumo según el guion?
-El crecimiento económico se ha asociado con la producción y el consumo de más bienes de consumo, lo que ha llevado a una mentalidad de desperdicio y a la externalización de los costos reales de producción, lo que no se refleja en los precios de los productos.
¿Qué papel juegan los medios de comunicación y la publicidad en el impulso del consumo?
-Los medios de comunicación y la publicidad juegan un papel crucial al mostrar 3,000 anuncios al día a cada persona en los Estados Unidos, lo que nos hace insatisfechos con lo que tenemos y nos motiva a comprar cosas nuevas para sentirnos mejor.
¿Por qué el reciclaje por sí solo no es suficiente para solucionar el problema del desperdicio según el guion?
-El reciclaje por sí solo no es suficiente porque la cantidad de desperdicio generado es mucho mayor que lo que se puede reciclar, y muchos productos contienen tóxicos o están diseñados de tal manera que no son reciclables, lo que significa que no aborda el núcleo del problema.
¿Qué soluciones se mencionan en el guion para transformar el sistema económico lineal en uno más sostenible?
-Se mencionan soluciones como la química verde, el cero desperdicio, la producción de ciclo cerrado, la energía renovable y la economía local, que ya están ocurriendo y que pueden ayudar a transformar el sistema económico lineal en uno más sostenible y equitativo.
Outlines
🌏 Sistema de economía de materiales en crisis
El primer párrafo explora el sistema económico de materiales, desde la extracción hasta la eliminación, y cómo este modelo lineal entra en crisis debido a la interacción con un planeta finito. Se destaca la importancia de las personas en el sistema, la influencia desproporcionada de las corporaciones sobre el gobierno y la crisis ambiental causada por la explotación de recursos naturales, poniendo de manifiesto la sobreutilización de recursos y la desigualdad en el consumo global.
💉 Impacto de las químicas tóxicas en la salud y el medio ambiente
Este párrafo se enfoca en los peligros de las químicas sintéticas utilizadas en la producción industrial, que no han sido completamente evaluadas para su impacto en la salud. Se menciona el problema de las sustancias tóxicas que se acumulan en la cadena alimentaria y se concentran en el cuerpo humano, especialmente en la leche materna, lo que representa una grave violación de la salud infantil. Además, se discute la exposición de los trabajadores a sustancias peligrosas y las consecuencias para las comunidades y el medio ambiente.
🛍️ Consumo insostenible y externalización de costos
El tercer párrafo critica el modelo de consumo impulsado por la sociedad, donde la identidad principal de las personas se ha convertido en ser consumidores. Se argumenta que el sistema de producción y distribución de bienes no refleja los verdaderos costos, ya que estos se externalizan a la sociedad y el medio ambiente. Se menciona la importancia de la flecha dorada del consumo para el sistema económico y cómo las estrategias de obsolescencia planeada y percibida fomentan el deseo de productos nuevos y la desechabilidad de los existentes.
📺 Influencia de la publicidad y la cultura en el consumismo
Este párrafo examina cómo la publicidad y los medios de comunicación influyen en el comportamiento de consumo, mostrando la insatisfacción con lo que poseemos y la presión para adquirir más. Se destaca la cantidad abrumadora de publicidades a las que se expone el público en los Estados Unidos y cómo esto contribuye a un ciclo de trabajo, entretenimiento y gasto que no mejora la felicidad general.
🚮 Problemas del desecho y la necesidad de un cambio de paradigma
El último párrafo aborda el problema del desecho, que es una consecuencia directa del alto nivel de consumo no sostenible. Se describe cómo la mayoría de los productos terminan en desechos en un corto período de tiempo, y se cuestiona la viabilidad de las soluciones actuales como la reciclaje. Se hace un llamado a la transformación del sistema lineal de producción y eliminación a uno más sostenible y equitativo, enfocándose en la sostenibilidad y la economía local.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Economía de materiales
💡Sistema lineal
💡Extracción
💡Producción
💡Distribución
💡Consumo
💡Obsolescencia planificada
💡Percepcion de obsolescencia
💡Reciclaje
💡Sostenibilidad
💡Equidad
Highlights
Obsessed with the lifecycle of consumer goods, from origin to disposal.
Explored the materials economy, a linear system from extraction to disposal, which is in crisis on a finite planet.
People are integral to the system, with some having more influence than others, like the government.
Corporations have grown more powerful than governments, impacting policy and regulation.
Extraction, or natural resource exploitation, leads to environmental degradation and resource depletion.
The United States consumes and wastes disproportionately to its population size.
The exploitation of third-world countries for resources contributes to global inequality.
Production processes involve toxic chemicals, posing health and environmental risks.
Toxic chemicals accumulate in the food chain and are particularly harmful to infants through breastfeeding.
Factory workers, often women of reproductive age, are exposed to hazardous materials.
Global migration patterns are influenced by the erosion of local environments and economies.
Pollution from production processes is a global issue, affecting air, land, and water.
The cost of production is often externalized, not reflected in the price of consumer goods.
Consumption is the driving force of the economy, encouraged by government and media.
Planned and perceived obsolescence are strategies to increase consumption.
Advertisements contribute to dissatisfaction, promoting continuous shopping.
National happiness has declined despite increased consumption, suggesting a disconnect.
Disposal of waste is a significant issue, with landfills and incinerators causing environmental harm.
Recycling is beneficial but insufficient to address the systemic issues of consumption and waste.
A new mindset based on sustainability, equity, and closed-loop production is needed.
Transcripts
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to one of these I got a little obsessed
with mine in fact I got a little
obsessed with all my stuff have you ever
wondered where all the stuff we buy
comes from and where it goes when we
throw it out I couldn't stop wondering
about that so I looked it up and what
the textbook said is that stuff moves
through a system from extraction to
production to distribution to
consumption to disposal all together
it's called the materials economy well I
looked into a little bit more in fact I
spent 10 years traveling the world
tracking where our stuff comes from and
where it goes and you know what I found
out that is not the whole story there is
a lot missing from this explanation for
one thing this system looks like it's
fine no problem but the truth is it's a
system in crisis and the reason it's a
system in crisis is it's a linear system
and we live on a finite planet and you
cannot run a linear system on a finite
planet indefinitely every step along the
way this system is interacting with the
real world in real life it's not
happening on a blank white page it's
interacting with societies cultures
economies the environment and all along
the way it's bumping up against limits
limits we don't see here because the
diagram is incomplete so let's go back
through let's fill in some of the blanks
and see what's missing well one of the
most important things that's missing is
people yes people people live and work
all along this system and some people in
this system matter a little more than
others some have a little more say who
are they well let's start with the
government now my friends tell me I
should use a tank to symbolize the
government and that's true in many
countries and increasingly in our own
after all more than 50 percent of our
federal tax money is now going to the
military but I'm using a person to
symbolize the government because I hold
true to the vision and values the
government should be of the people by
the people for the people it's the
government's job to watch out for us too
take care of us that's their job then
Along Came the corporation now the
reason the corporation looks bigger than
the government is that the corporation
is bigger than the government of the 100
largest economies on earth now 51 are
corporations and as the corporation has
grown in size and power we've seen a
little change in the government weather
a little more concern and making sure
everything's working out for those guys
than for us okay so let's see what else
is missing from this picture
we'll start with extraction which is a
fancy word for natural resource
exploitation which is a fancy word for
trashing the planet what this looks like
is we chop down the trees who blow up
mountains to get the metals inside we
use up all the water and we wipe out the
animals so here we are running up
against our first limit we are running
out of resources we are using too much
stuff now I know this can be hard to
hear but it's the truth so we've got to
deal with it in the past three decades
alone one-third of the planet's natural
resource space has been consumed gone we
are cutting and mining and hauling and
trashing the place so fast that we're
undermining the planet's variability for
people to live here where I live in the
United States we have less than 4% of
our original forests left 40% of the
waterways have become undrinkable in our
problem is not just that we're using too
much stuff but we're using more than our
share we have 5% of the world's
population but we're using 30% of the
world's resources and creating 30% of
the world's waste if everybody consumed
at US rates we would need three to five
planets and you know what we've only got
one so my country's response to this
limitation is simply to go take somebody
else's this is the third world which
some would say is another word for our
stuff that somehow got on somebody
else's land so what does that look like
the same thing trashing the place 75% of
global fisheries now are fished at or
beyond capacity
80% of the planet's original forests are
gone in the Amazon alone we're losing
2,000 trees a minute that is 7 football
fields on
it and what about the people who live
here well according to these guys they
don't own these resources even if
they've been living there for
generations they don't own the means of
production and they're not buying a lot
of stuff and in this system if you don't
own or buy a lot of stuff you don't have
value so next the materials move to
production and what happens there is we
use energy to mix toxic chemicals in
with the natural resources to make toxic
contaminated products there are over a
hundred thousand synthetic chemicals in
use in commerce today only a handful of
them have even been tested for health
impacts and none have been tested for
synergistic health impacts that means
when they interact with all the other
chemicals were exposed to every day so
we don't know the full impact on health
and the environment of all these toxic
chemicals but we do know one thing
toxics in toxics out as long as we keep
putting toxics into our industrial
production systems we're going to keep
getting toxic syn the stuff that we
bring into our homes and workplaces and
schools and duh our bodies like VF ARS
brominated flame retardants they're a
chemical that make things more fireproof
but they are super toxic they're our
neurotoxin that means toxic to the brain
what are we even doing using a chemical
like this yet we've put it in our
computers or appliances couches
mattresses even some pillows in fact we
take our pillows we douse them in a
neurotoxin then we bring them home and
put our heads on them for eight hours a
night to sleep now I don't know but it
seems to me in this country with so much
potential we could think of a better way
to stop our heads from catching on fire
at night now these toxics build up the
food chain and concentrate in our bodies
do you know what is the food at the top
of the food chain with the highest level
of many toxic contaminants human breast
milk that means that we've reached a
point where the smallest members of our
societies our babies are getting the
highest lifetime dose of toxic chemicals
from breastfeeding from their mothers is
that not an incredible violation
breastfeeding must be the most
fundamental human act of nurturing it
should be sacred and safe no
breastfeeding is still best and mothers
should definitely keep breastfeeding but
we should protect
it they should protect it I thought they
were looking out for us
and of course the people who bear the
biggest brunt of these toxic chemicals
are the factory workers many of whom are
women of reproductive age they're
working with reproductive toxins
carcinogens and more now I ask you what
kind of woman of reproductive age would
work in a job exposed to reproductive
toxins except for a woman with no other
option and that's one of the beauties of
this system the erosion of local
environments and economies here ensures
a constant supply of people with no
other option globally two hundred
thousand people a day are moving from
environments that have sustained them
for generations into cities many to live
in slums looking for work no matter how
toxic that work may be so you see it's
not just resources that are wasted along
this system but people too whole
communities get wasted yep toxics in
toxics out a lot of the toxic sleev the
factories and products but even more
leave as byproducts or pollution and
it's a lot of pollution in the US our
industry admits to releasing over 4
billion pounds of toxic chemicals a year
it's probably a lot more because that's
only what they admit so that's another
limit because Yaak who wants to look at
and smell 4 billion pounds of toxic
chemicals a year so what do they do
move the dirty factories overseas
pollute someone else's land but surprise
a lot of that pollution is coming right
back at us carried by wind currents so
what happens after all these natural
resources are turned into products well
it moves here for distribution
now distribution means selling all the
toxic contaminated junk as quickly as
possible the goal here is to keep the
prices down keep the people buying and
keep the inventory moving how do they
keep the prices down
well they don't pay the store workers
very much and they skimp on health
insurance every time they can it's all
about externalizing the costs what that
means is that the real cost of making
stuff aren't captured in the price in
other words we aren't paying for the
stuff we buy I was thinking about this
the other day I was walking to work and
I wanted to listen to the news so I
popped into a Radio Shack to buy
I found this cute little green radio for
$4.99 I was standing there in line to
buy this thing and I was thinking how
could $4.99 possibly capture the cost of
making this radio and getting it into my
hands the metal was probably mined in
South Africa the petroleum was probably
drilled in Iraq the plastics were
probably produced in China and maybe the
whole thing was assembled by some 15
year old in a macular or in Mexico $4.99
wouldn't even pay the rent for the shelf
space it occupied until I came along let
alone part of the staff guys salary who
helped me pick it out or the multiple
ocean cruises and truck rides pieces of
this radio went on that's how I realized
I didn't pay for the radio so who did
pay well these people paid with the loss
of their natural resource space these
people paid with the loss of their clean
air with increasing asthma and cancer
rates kids in the Congo paid with their
future 30 percent of the kids in part of
the Congo have dropped out of school to
mine coltan a metal we need for our
cheap and disposable electronics these
people even paid by having to cover
their own health insurance all along
this system people pitched in so I could
get this radio for $4.99 and none of
these contributions are recorded in any
accounts book that's what I mean by the
company owners externalize the true
costs of production and that brings us
to the golden arrow of consumption this
is the heart of the system the engine
that drives it it is so important that
protecting this arrow has become the top
priority for both of these guys that's
why after 9/11 when our country was in
shock and President Bush could have
suggested any number of appropriate
things to grieve to pray to hope no he
said to shop to shop we have become a
nation of consumers our primary identity
has become that of being consumers not
mothers teachers farmers but consumers
the primary way that our value is
measured and demonstrated is by how much
we contribute to this arrow how much we
consume and do we we shop and shop and
shop keep the materials flowing and flow
they do guess what percentage of total
materials flow
through this system is still in product
or use six months after their date of
sale in North America 50 percent 20 no 1
percent 1 in other words 99% of the
stuff we harvest mine process transport
99% of the stuff we run through the
system is trashed within 6 months now
how can we run a planet with that level
of materials throughput it wasn't always
like this the average u.s. person now
consumes twice as much as they did 50
years ago ask your grandma in her day
stewardship and resourcefulness and
thrift were valued so how did this
happen well it didn't just happen it was
designed shortly after World War two
these guys were figuring out how to ramp
up the economy retailing analyst Victor
LeBeau articulated the solution that's
become the norm for the whole system he
said our enormous ly productive economy
demands that we make consumption our way
of life that we convert the buying and
use of goods into rituals that we seek
our spiritual satisfaction our ego
satisfaction in consumption we need
things consumed burned up replaced and
discarded at an ever-accelerating rate
President Eisenhower's Council of
Economic Advisers chairman said that the
American economy's ultimate purpose is
to produce more consumer goods more
consumer goods our ultimate purpose not
provide health care or education or safe
transportation or sustainability or
justice consumer goods how did they get
us to jump on board this program so
enthusiastically well two of their most
effective strategies are planned
obsolescence and perceived obsolescence
planned obsolescence is another word for
designed for the dump it means they
actually make stuff to be useless as
quickly as possible so we'll chuck it
and buy a new one it's obvious with
things like plastic bags and coffee cups
but now it's even big stuff mops DVDs
cameras barbecues even everything even
computers have you noticed that when you
buy a computer now the technology is
changing so fast that in just a couple
of years it's actually an impediment
communication I was curious about this
so I opened up a big desktop computer to
see what was inside and I found out that
the piece that changes each year is just
a tiny little piece in the corner but
you can't just change that one piece
because each new version is a different
shape so you got to chuck the whole
thing and buy a new one
so I was reading industrial design
journals in the 1950s when planned
obsolescence was really catching on
these designers are so open about it
they actually discuss how fast can they
make stuff break that still leaves the
consumer having enough faith in the
product to go out and buy another one it
was so intentional but stuff cannot
break fast enough to keep this arrow
afloat so there's also perceived
obsolescence now perceived obsolescence
convinces us to throw away stuff that is
still perfectly useful how do they do
that well they change the way the stuff
looks so if you bought your stuff a
couple of years ago everyone can tell
that you haven't contributed to this
arrow recently and since the way we
demonstrate our value is contributing to
this arrow it can be embarrassing like
I've had the same fat white computer
monitor on my desk for five years my
coworker just got a new computer she has
a flat shiny sleek monitor it matches
her computer matches her phone even her
pen stand she looks like she's driving
in spaceship central and I I look like I
got a washing machine on my desk fashion
is another prime example of this have
you ever wondered why women's shoe heels
go from fat one year to skinny the next
to fat to skinny it's not because
there's some debate about which heel
structure is the most healthy for
lorentz feet it's because wearing fat
heels in a skinny heel year shows
everybody that you haven't contributed
to that arrow as recently so you're not
as valuable as that person in skinny
heels next to you or more likely in some
ad it's to keep us buying new shoes
advertisements and media in general
plays a big role in this each of us in
the u.s. is targeted with over 3,000
advertisements a day we see more
advertisements in one year than people
50 years ago saw in a lifetime and if
you think about it what's the point of
an ad except to make us unhappy with
what we have so 3,000 times a day we're
told our hair is wrong her skin is wrong
our clothes are wrong our furniture is
wrong her car is wrong
wrong but it can all be made right if we
just go shopping media also helps by
hiding all of this and all of this so
the only part of the materials economy
we see is the shopping the extraction
production and disposal all happens
outside of our field of vision so in the
u.s. we have more stuff than ever before
but polls show that our national
happiness is actually declining our
national happiness peaked in the 1950s
the same time that this consumption
mania exploded hmm interesting
coincidence I think I know why we have
more stuff but we have less time for the
things that really make us happy friends
family leisure time we're working harder
than ever
some analysts say we have less leisure
time than any time since feudal society
and you know what the two main
activities are that we do with the scant
leisure time we have watch TV and shop
in the u.s. we spend three to four times
as many hours shopping as our
counterparts in Europe do so we're in
this ridiculous situation where we go to
work maybe two jobs even and we come
home and were exhausted so we plop down
on a new couch and watch TV and the
commercials tell us you suck so you got
to go to the mall to buy something to
feel better and then you got to go to
work more to pay for the stuff you just
bought so you come on when you're more
tired so you sit down and you watch more
TV then tells you to go to the mall
again and we're on this crazy work watch
spend treadmill and we could just stop
so in the end what happens to all the
stuff we buy anyway at this rate of
consumption it can't fit into our houses
even though the average house side is
doubled in this country since the 1970s
it all goes out in the garbage and that
brings us to disposal this is the part
of the materials economy we all know the
most because we have to haul the junk
out to the curb ourselves each of us in
the United States makes four and a half
pounds of garbage a day that's twice
what we each made thirty years ago all
of this garbage either gets dumped in a
landfill which is just a big hole in the
ground or if you're really unlucky first
it's burned in an incinerator and then
dumped in the landfill either way they
both pollute the air land water and
don't forget change the climate
incineration is really bad remember
those toxic back in the production stage
well burning the garbage releases the
coccyx up into the air even worse it
makes new super toxics like dioxin
dioxin is the most toxic man-made
substance known to science and
incinerators are the number one source
of dioxin that means that we could stop
the number one source of the most toxic
man-made substance known just by
stopping burning the trash we could stop
it today now some companies don't want
to deal with building landfills and
incinerators here so they just export
the disposal - what about recycling does
recycling help yes recycling helps
recycling reduces the garbage at this
end and it reduces the pressure to mine
and harvests new stuff at this end yes
yes yes we should all recycle but
recycling is not enough recycling will
never be enough for a couple reasons
first the waste coming out of our houses
is just the tip of the iceberg for
everyone garbage can of waste you put
out on the curb 70 garbage cans of waste
were made upstream just to make the junk
in that one garbage can you put out on
the curb
so even if we could recycle a hundred
percent of the waste coming out of our
households it doesn't get to the core of
the problems also much of the garbage
can't be recycled either because it
contains too many toxics or it's
designed not to be recyclable in the
first place like those juice packs where
they have layers of metal and paper and
plastic all smooshed together you can
never separate those for true recycling
so you see it is a system in crisis all
along the way we are bumping up against
limits from changing climate to
declining happiness it's just not
working but the good thing about such an
all pervasive problem is that there are
so many points of intervention there are
people working here on saving forests
and here on clean production people
working on labor rights and fair trade
and conscious consuming and blocking
landfills and incinerators and very
importantly on taking back our
government so that it really is by the
people and for the people all of this
work is critically important but things
are really going to start moving when we
see the connections when we see the big
picture when people along the system get
united we can reclaim and transform this
linear system into something new
a system that doesn't waste resources or
people because what we really need to
chuck is that old-school throwaway
mindset there's a new school of thinking
on this stuff
and it's based on sustainability and
equity green chemistry zero waste
closed-loop production renewable energy
local living economies it's already
happening now some say it's unrealistic
idealistic that it can't happen but I
say the ones who are unrealistic are
those that want to continue with the old
path that's dreaming remember that old
way didn't just happen it's not like
gravity that we've just got to live with
people created it and we're people too
so let's create something
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