This is the video about the illustration of stuff process. All the stuffs that produced move through a system which is formed by 5 separate procedures, with extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal respectively. Moreover, this whole process is called material economy, that is, where does those materials come from and where to go.
In this procedure, people, as a crucial role, who live and work in this process. In this huge field, people from government and corporations are mostly effective to the whole process. Government control people in various ways, as well as they also have the rights to control the process to operate. Besides, corporations affect the operation of government because they have the side power towards to whole market.
With the process operating, what it brings is not only the benefits, but also some negative effects, like running out of resources. Using too much stuff may cause the limitation for people to use more resources in the future. There is a survey that reveals almost one-third of the natural resources had been used up by human beings until now. Also, toxics are another serious problem when producing the goods. 100, 00 kinds of synthetic chemicals are added into products for people to use. That means, some of the chemicals are directly touched by people’s skin. So, eventually, those chemicals must affect next generation indirectly. Also, in terms of the normal operation of the whole process, government encourages people to go shopping rather than staying at home. So, some shops are encouraging people to purchase by decreasing the price of products. This process has to keep the externalized costs. From distribution part to consumption one, it is the most important process. However, 99% of the trashes are produced rather than some valuable stuff. In fact, some products are produced to be like planned obsolescence, which is called ‘Designed for the dump’. This means those products are designed to be quickly used and thrown away. Corporations encourage people to purchase by changing the way the stuff looks like shoes and radios. We live in a lifestyle of go shopping and working and going home and watching TV, then the advertisements tell us to purchase, followed with going shopping again! Such a circulate process! Furthermore, the disposal of the stuff is crucial but usually we make this procedure money cost and resource cost. We burn all the trash or cover them. How could we have a better living environment by doing this just for its convenience?
As far as I am concerned, what we should concentrate is not only how to encourage people to go more shopping, but caring about the area that we are now living in. Although we've already have some concerns like sustainability, equity, green chemical, zero waste, closed loop production, renewable energy and local living economics. But we haven’t really focused on those issue, the bad influences are still there! As the earth, which is our home, is becoming sick day by day. As the citizens like us, we are able to and have to create something to save our family but not just caring about what we could gain from it.
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