The video on "The Story Of Stuff" talk about the issue of resource and how the issue is created. Annie Lenard uses many examples to emphasise the disadvantage of our way of using resource.
After watching the whole video, I deeply realised that human have wasted too much resource for making money for themselves. Obviously, this is an extremely selfish behaviour! They are not just using resource, they are also producing huge amount of waste. Then, those prodcuts make our daily life become useless as we spend lots of time running this linear system to keep the material economy going. We can't continue doing this anymore. Just like Annie Lenard said " If everybody consumed at U.S rates, we would need 3 to 5 planets. And you know what? We've only got one". This is the truth we have to face. So, changing the linear system is the number one thing we need to start doing today!
The government and corporation have the responsibility to make our life better, as we know, they are the one who control the material economy. But, rely on them to change the system is not enough. Because, there is one more group of people play an important role in this system. They are designers. So, they have the responsibility to produce product that is sustainable and renewable. They need to consider the material they are using for making the product, also limit the number of material in a product, especially the material that contain toxics, as it is hard for the other people to recycle it. An example is shown through Annie Lenard's speech, "Like those juice packs with layers of metal and paper and plastic all smoothed together. You can never separate those for true recycling". As we can see, if designers help to create something that is good for using, not wasting. Then, the world will not be like this anymore.
I start to understand that designers are not just designing things for people to consume. They are designing things that is useful and suitable for and human and the whole world.
After watching the whole video, I deeply realised that human have wasted too much resource for making money for themselves. Obviously, this is an extremely selfish behaviour! They are not just using resource, they are also producing huge amount of waste. Then, those prodcuts make our daily life become useless as we spend lots of time running this linear system to keep the material economy going. We can't continue doing this anymore. Just like Annie Lenard said " If everybody consumed at U.S rates, we would need 3 to 5 planets. And you know what? We've only got one". This is the truth we have to face. So, changing the linear system is the number one thing we need to start doing today!
The government and corporation have the responsibility to make our life better, as we know, they are the one who control the material economy. But, rely on them to change the system is not enough. Because, there is one more group of people play an important role in this system. They are designers. So, they have the responsibility to produce product that is sustainable and renewable. They need to consider the material they are using for making the product, also limit the number of material in a product, especially the material that contain toxics, as it is hard for the other people to recycle it. An example is shown through Annie Lenard's speech, "Like those juice packs with layers of metal and paper and plastic all smoothed together. You can never separate those for true recycling". As we can see, if designers help to create something that is good for using, not wasting. Then, the world will not be like this anymore.
I start to understand that designers are not just designing things for people to consume. They are designing things that is useful and suitable for and human and the whole world.
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