Anyone checked this out?
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
I'm not what sure to think about this. On the one hand the idea of being less wasteful and making a more sustainable economy/lifestyle is something I support. But a lot of it seems like environmental fear mongering. The part about the government economy conspiracy was a stretch. The part about a computer was completely idiotic. And I don't think Annie would have been posting this on the internet if our economy wasn't the way it is, because we wouldn't have come this far.
Has anyone looked into this more? There was an awful lot of "really, it's true!" for me to trust without some real back up.