The Story of Stuff
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- 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. storyofstuff.org
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You mentioned '' We spend 3 times as many hours shopping as our counterparts in EUROPE DO ? ? 'The whole world is not only made up of the US AND EUROPE.../
yeah... this video is whole lotta' bullshit. All the stuff you claim in this garbage animation that's shared through schools globally is fear-mongering garbage with no link to sources.
@@PsychonautTV You're my hero! Do people really buy this bullshit!? With this garbage being poured into kids' heads, no fucking wonder we're about to be overrun by domestic communists!
Yeah looking through the "fact sheet" on their website, many of the "facts" that they present are not cited. Even many of the ones that are cited are from rather questionable sources. The logic is faulty at best, and willingly ignorant to the point of being malicious at worst.
@@PsychonautTV They're trying their best, I expect
Their best to what? I'll let you figure that out on your own
Online schooling really be making this channels career
What els are you having to watch?
No way dude I’m doing the same
yessir lmfao
Fuckin sociology professor brought me here, lol
@Aubrey Hernandez hahaha sadly yes...fml
Who is still watching this video from 2009 because of online school due to covid 19?
yess
“Sad student noises”
Me lol
So cringe
Yes
For anyone doing the Canadian assignment
Distribution: 8:20
Production: 4:45
Disposal: 18:30
Consumption: 10:36
Extraction: 2:40
Thx
god bless your soul
I love this mans
Bless
thank you kind soul
"Recycling is not enough. Recycling will never be enough." Awesome lesson. Feels empowering to understand that reducing and reusing come before recycling.
We need to know so u think about it and are conscious or else why would u stop ?
People who are watching this:
1% random dudes
5% Teacher
94% pupils who have to watch and summarize it
I'm the 1 percent. A book that I'm reading recommended it.
Here to summarize
Greenpilz sounds about right
I came here because like 10 years ago I went on google and typed in “stuff” and then I was so scared to use my pillow and then I forgot about it and then I tried to find this video again
I’m part of the 1%, my brother told me to watch it and said it shows how creepy everything is.
Why're the pictures so high quality when she's stuck in like 140p
underrated comment
I guess it's just a crappy green screen
@Patricia Mignone how is that mean? This video is pretty old, it's not weird to say that this green screen is not up to standard
@@sorackee Yes, but is it relevant to the message? (I wondered the same thing, by the way, but just figured it was 2009 tech).
@@BruceHurley it's relevant to this comment, lol
A professor in college showed my class the Story of Stuff Video and it changed my life. Fast forward 5 years and I am a municipal recycling coordinator. Thank you for spreading the word Story of Stuff Project!
That's bad ass, thank you for your work!
Recycling the biggest scam of them all.
no one:
the photos graphics: 1080pHD
Her graphics: 100p
haha, true enough
LMFAOO
How did I get 101 likes!!!?!?!??!?!
Thank god i thought my pc got a problem
@@emretanaci5011 LOL
you can tell this video is from 2007 because she actually goes to radio shack, _and there's a line_
And the Ipod!
davesyndrome wait... ipods are no longer being used? lolol
because is from 2007
Which proves the point.
davesyndrome u
Need a summary? Here you go.
The Story of Stuff is a short and interesting video that shows what happens to the stuff we buy and the set of events or the journey they go through. The video starts by pointing out the fact that all products in the world are controlled by a system that covers the storyline from extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and then finally to disposal. Extraction shows the process of collecting raw materials from natural resources, such as trees, rocks, soil, plants, animals, and so on. The part of extraction in the video displayed how different organizations are consuming materials irresponsibly and without considering that these natural resources need time to be replenished in order to sustain. The following step, production, cover the process that raw materials have to go through in order to be useful. This part of the video details how the production process releases toxins into the air and its impact on the whole planet. Then comes distribution which describes the packaging and delivery of products to vendors around the world. The next step, consumption, in which the consumer now has received the product and is ready to be used. After using the product for a certain life span comes the harshest part of the system which is the disposal of stuff.
Throughout the above steps, the video emphasizes the impact of each step on the planet in general. The economy, for instance, is running out of resources to make products and to maintain life due to the extensive consumption of natural resources by us, the customers. The cost of sold products is externalized which means the amount paid to produce the item has no affiliation with its price, and that has a great impact on the economy as well. The production step shows the greediness of some corporations where they produce products that are designed to fail easily after a certain time or become obsolete/out of date in order to sell more annually. Finally, the video presented a rational solution or at least an encouragement to find safer ways to produce stuff and to consume them.
Ali Zyadat i love you
I love you
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Legend
Ehrenmann !!
Her: "And do you know what the two main activities are that we do with the scant leisure time we have?"
Me: "drink and sleep."
Her: "Watch tv and shop."
Me: "oh"
I never felt a comment on so many levels 👁👄👁
Lol 😆
I feel seen...
Same ha ha I was going to go with "eating and sleeping." Except usually I prioritize sleep so I don't bother to eat.
Almost 15 years later and the problem has only gotten worse. We need reformation.
the saddest part is that this video is 11 years old, so people are aware of this problem for 11 years now, and so far it's only getting worse instead of better
In the first 3 minutes she makes the video unreliable by saying the us spends 5 trillion dollars on the military
My thoughts exactly. Let's take personal responsibility to make a positive change, however small
Boomers realy show this to their children/ students and think their part is done
@@blacknoir3816 She did not say that actually
Exactly what I thought,now 12 years old ...it's sad
who is just here because of school?
+Michel Anton But I'm intrigued by this series though. I'm glad my prof made us watch and review this.
Me
+Michel Anton me! he he
Me bruh
+Michel Anton After watching the video, I understand that we should be dead now. Everything I touch is toxic. =o
My math teacher subjected us top this at 8:00 AM the week before Christmas and we spent the whole day depressed
She did good! We have to be aware! And not be selfish. There are going to be other generations behind us that also have the right to enjoy this planet and living.
After watching this video, I can confidently say that it is one of the most eye-opening things I’ve seen in a long time. Not only does the woman state her case by explaining and describing, she also adds a motivational aspect to the story by stating different methods we can use to solve the issue. I could not agree more with what she had to say.
The video does a very good job of showing just how the government has come to focus more on the consumption and production of goods and services, rather than the people. Annie’s voice is very inspiring in that she makes you want to continue learning more about the subject even after finishing the video. Even though consumerism is a very complicated subject, they seem to have found a way to explain the problem in a manner which is interpretable to everyone. Well, I can’t say that for sure but I certainly learned a lot.
In the beginning of the video, Annie compares the government to major corporations, which to me seems like a smart thing to do. Not only did she describe the problem with governments and their so called “consumption-endured visions”, but she also stuck a figure of the government next to a hypothetical corporation, showing how little power the government has compared to them. In the animation, the “little” government looks fragile compared to the almighty corporation. This is supposed to symbolise that modern power comes from how much a country can produce and consume, which is a new phenomenon.
did you post that to your class discussion too
is that a homework
@@quiltcoverijimo1374 yes lmao. I thought I might as well post it here too
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Thank you so much for this ☺️
Who is here because of a school assignment?!
I'm in Brazil and I have to summarize the content of this video.
por acaso é de geografia?
yeah man i know what you feel i do that too
+Thiago Dantas não, é por cálculo.
From Philippines 😂 I thought I was the only one 😂
From Auckland, New Zealand. This is one of my weekly readings(Viewing). :)
"We see almost 3000 ads a day"
*ADBLOCKING INTENSIFIES*
i guarantee they have ads on this very video, idk because i too, have an ad blocker
It’s 4,000 now :(
@AS - 09KA - Port Credit SS (2272) Yeah this video is riddled with outdated information, and just plain and simple hearsay too. I didn't see a single source or citation for every single statistic shoved down our throats throughout this cringey 20 minute video. That's not to say the message is bad, I agree with how unsustainable our world has become, BUT WHERE ARE YOUR SOURCES
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I'm watching this in 2020 and there's a lot of things that are wrong or handwaved in this video. I get the point they're trying to make, but a lot of the examples and word choice they use are so blatantly simple and vague to try and influence the opinion of the viewer rather than portray the situation in its entirety. I can't count the amount of times she said toxins and pollutants only to not elaborate on what kind. A lot of the examples seem intentionally misconstrued. I don't disagree with the overarching argument, it just seems scummy to try and manipulate the average viewer with incorrect examples.
There's the computer example, at around 13 min, which is blatantly wrong. Some guy in the comments already talked about that, I can put it here as well:
"Being a computer enthusiast, The Desktop computer example is blatantly wrong, She did not take into account the fact that even if the parts aren't compatible, it could still last years. Different devices use different ports so that it doesn’t fry itself. People like her take for granted the one cable that connects a phone to the world. Desktop computers can last for greater than 10 years and even more, and it is not planned obsolescence that technology will improve over time. Things like shrinking silicon is not planned obsolescence. This documentary was released in ‘09, where most newer hardware have settled and most ports are still in use today. For example, RAM, DDR3 was released in ‘07, and was in use until 2017 when DDR4 became mainstream. Even so, there are still computers using the LPDDR3 in 2020 laptops, just because they improved the generation so much, while maintaining compatibility. That is not planned obsolescence. And if the tiny little piece she was referencing was a BIOS chip, different brand motherboards usually have different BIOS chips, because the BIOS is what controls the first steps of turning on a computer and has to be made specific to a certain group of hardware."
She mentions the national happiness level at 16:22, and literally blames the drop on consumerism. Now, I don't necessarily disagree. I'm sure the lifestyle of a first world country like the U.S definitely plays a factor. But happiness is complex. Shifts in cultural values and social values are factors. World events, the education system, everything an individual experiences can determine their mental attitude, and thus, happiness. You can't just say an absolute, like "consumerism *is* the cause", and portray it as a fact rather than an opinion about a topic that's incredibly complex and can be affected by an innumerable amount of factors. Intentionally misconstruing information in this way to manipulate viewers is messed up, even if the overall message is good.
She tosses around the words "toxic" a ton. I think like 20+ times, but rarely delves into what these chemicals are, and what their individual impact is. She mentions bromine fire retardants and dioxin, but everything else is handwaved as a "toxic" chemical. Hell, you could consider CO2 a "toxic" chemical for it's impact on the environment. You could say the same thing about carbon monoxide, which, while toxic, also doesn't affect anyone's lives unless its in high concentrations. I.E accidentally burning plastic in your home. You're literally never going get carbon monoxide poisoning from being outside, there's too much air for carbon monoxide to ever reach a dangerous enough concentration. I'm sure there are a lot of toxic chemicals from our industrial process, but the term "toxic chemicals", is so broad and vague, it can encompass a ton of molecules simply based on your definition of what is toxic. Both of those molecules are released by burning plastics, but neither have the impact that "releasing toxic chemicals into the air" does. That's not to say that there aren't some chemicals that are definitely toxic when released into the atmosphere, but by tossing around large numbers and scary vocabulary, she seems to be exaggerating to scare the viewer, rather than portraying the situation clearly.
The bromine fire retardant thing she mentioned? There's evidence of it being a carcinogen, but mainly only fire fighters are affected because they're the ones that are going in homes and inhaling those molecules that are now airborne. Unless you're actively burning clothes or eating it, the average individual is more or less fine. Again, I don't disagree with her point, I just hate how she misconstrues information in order to support it.
She starts talking about this conspiracy that all businesses are trying to engineer consumers to purchase goods, and that we're all falling from some sort of massive scheme. Again, I'm sure some businesses are doing this. But no one is stopping you from using a paper or cloth bag instead of a plastic one, and no one is forcing you to follow fashion. Wtf was that heel thing she brought up?? The American generates 4 pounds of waste a day? I think I've generated a couple of grams.
Yes, the U.S has a great consumerism problem. The start of the video demonstrated that perfectly, but a lot of the subsequent information and evidence used to support the video is intentionally misconstrued and manipulative. There are a lot of good points in the video, but I cringe every time she uses "toxic chemicals" and irrelevant examples, rather than go into specifics in order to make the issue seem even larger by telling half-truths.
this.. yeah this is pretty true. Thanks for posting this.
You said everything I wanted to say
i aggree with most things there but waste can be considred on what you through out what your breathing out and your pee and poo probs but we generste slot of waste daily and i aggree with your points
bro I totally agree, she is just trying to constantly say toxin and chemicals to make it seem like they are going to fry your brain, in reality, the small amount we use, which she doesn't talk about, she just says like one kind of chemical but never says how much, just says we douse it in chemicals, makes it seem like a lot but its barely any.
@@thejellobro5266 There are certainly numerous industrial chemicals that do have harmful effects on the body, but its not like she goes into specifics and tells you what they are, which is really frustrating
I never imagined I'd be here looking at stuff... learning about stuff... thank you school... for making me look at things that make sense for once in my life😢
"The government is by the people, for the people" (2009)
Me, in 2020: (Laughs, then cries)
Me in 2021 making this edit: (stops crying to laugh at the Capital, then continues crying)
never was, never will be.
okay boomer
DaCoasterBoy ikr lol
lol
what happened?!
So like 6 million summaries have been written about this video...
Been 12 goddamn years and this is still more relevant than ever. Got played in a university lecture hall a few days ago, noting the fact that resource depletion stats got much worse since then :((
I see a lot of people in the comment section being cynical and ignoring the video topic as a whole. But personally, I thought this was a great video, you didn't try to pander to the audience, or try to be quirky or random, your team animated this entire 20 minute video and you explained your topic really well, at least for me.
Thank you for making this cool video, and for making studying it much easier.
no ones being cynical, everyones talking about how this is their Geography homework lmao
@@diamondreaper1932 nah there's a lot of people here being "noooOoO that's how it works "
@@aarohansharma4551 well for me, I see a lot of ppl talking about this being their geography homework lol
@@diamondreaper1932 yeah thats true. I myself am doing this for my English homework.
@@diamondreaper1932 I got this for homework in engineering school. I am livid. I hate this stuff, I didnt sign up for this at all.
Not a student. Interested because mindless consumption is killing our planet. Thank you for this!
me too! Im trying to learn more and become informed about the ways we are damaging our environment so I could make more steps to become ecofriendly 💚🌱
And you type your comments on a computer made affordable for every home due to this "mindless consumption." Let's be intellectually honest. Consumption is "mindless" because it is a necessary response to the natural world. We consume to survive. Next time you're in a hospital, thank the "mindless" consumers for purchasing the technology, everything from plastic IV tubes to EKG machines, that helps keep people alive.
Scott Guzik you’re comparing apples to oranges. By its very definition, I am comparing mindless consumption to that of Conspicuous consumption which can be described as the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury goods and services to publicly display economic power-of the income or of the accumulated wealth of the buyer. Additionally individuals ascribe their identity and pursue happiness by possessing objects, which drives them further into debt and systematically lends to the destruction of our environment.
This differs from your examples provided which could be construed as necessary depending on circumstance.
@@scottguzik9703 You said it Scott! In order to survive I NEED my iPhone10, my dual processor computer, 7 pairs of shoes, and a BIG ASS truck. Hell, I'm off right now for Gucci underwear so I can wrap myself in bacon, and upload 300 selfies on the ol'InstaTwitBook. After that I'll be pumping my jams through a Bose, off on a trip to Ft. Lauderdale where I'll throw around plastic cups and drive my fat ass around buying a waffle iron and Ikea sewage. Ya fuck ya, gimmie gimmie gimmie
This video is exceedingly dishonest in way that makes me genuinely angry, Like panic attack on the floor angry. I can give examples on request but right now i need to do some deep breathing.
I have had to watch this video for college before.
Two years later, and I have to watch it again now.
I can’t believe I have to write a whole paper about this video
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same sis
same
@Bibizaynabi Saidasliddinzoda same my guy-
Same sis
so like everyone else, I'm here for a school assignment. but I'm honestly surprised this video has been up since 2009 and things are still the same-- even worse-- than they were. I guess people really aren't listening or thinking. I find it astounding that there were people radicalized to these concepts back in 2009 and still nothing has been done to course correct our progress as a species. honestly, we're probably all fucked thanks to corporations with governments wrapped around their fingers, millionaires and billionaires just looking to line their pockets even though it won't mean a thing because they've razed the planet so that the rest of us suffer.
eat the rich.
I like the fact that out of everyone's response that I've read thus far. You are the only one who actually gets the point!
So true, I saw this video long ago and just rewatched because Im thinking about showing it to some ppl that really needs to see it.
obviously
It's funny how this is a school project when the school system is a mess! Look around them it's all about changing curriculum,trowing stuff away so they can get a new stuff ,how can even the so called "new stuff" enhance the learning of the students.
I aint reading all that bruh
@@Danterosso1 sorry you can't read a single paragraph consisting of six sentences. hope you have a speedy recovery from your brain rot.
I work at the recycling center and I'm sad to report the public is blissfully misinformed about recycling. 1.nobody sorts your garbage, it goes straight to the dump. 2. Plastics 3-7 are essentially never recycled so know they are going to the dump also 3. Even recycling takes a huge amount of energy to transport and reprocess (less than virgin) so don't trick yourself into thinking it is as good as reuse. It is very healthy if this video makes you feel like the system is out of whack, cause it is, but don't loose hope!
Holy shit. I never wanted to be a minimalist more than ever.
And eco friendly! Bar shampoo, to combat plastic waste! More protected bike lanes to reduce traffic and allow ADA accessibility to safely use the space as well (like Austin, Texas with pedestrian bridges).
Small single lane roundabouts to greatly minimize accidents and less dependant on traffic lights and upkeep! Costs way less over time; win, win!
@Kalen Almeida lol
economy handlers hate this kinds of stuff, because they believe these things will kill the current civilization and will build a better one where they may not have place as stronger and wealthier like this.
@@IM-bv4vc they can sell more eco friendly items instead of making excuses, like selling bar shampoo and other items that doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out
@@bubblygranolachick Yeah but if they don't consume the wealth of the poor countries, they can't be as rich.
Online school be like: *I'm about to make this mans whole career*
yassssssss
This video brings back such nostalgia...it was one of the first animations I saw as a child and it really stuck with me ever since.
Anyone else get some serious "down with the bourgeoisie!" vibes from this??
Eat the rich.
Dońt forget: YOU are the bourgeois!
yepp
/dev/etresevo Bourgeoisie refers to the individuals owning the means of production, i.e. the various forms of capital. Apart from the often cited 1%, most Americans, including these liberal Americans you write of, don’t have ownership of those means.
@/dev/etresevo liberals are gross. Communists are the ones pushing for worker ownership of the means of production. Read Marx's Labor Theory of Value, which has been proven tenfold by this ongoing crisis. The bourgeois refers to the über rich who own the means of production, the 1%.
2019 school projects be like.......
I can't believe they assign blatant leftist propaganda that is factually incorrect as a school project.
@@leerfye598um ok
Sad to see this easily debunked, statistically false video is still getting into classrooms.
I’m working on this today at school
COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA
I landed here as part of an online course about product lifecycle analysis. But since I have been working in the information technology field for 20 years I cringed when the presenter basically explained that computers evolutions are just about the chips and flat screens are just more fashionable screens. The environmental impact of information technology is real, but the evolution of hardware and software also enables us to do more things. Like generate calculations faster to build safer buildings, develop medicine like the vaccines that are protecting us right now from Covid, and enable us to track the supply chain and optimize it to save money and save resources. So an updated version of this video with a less biased vision about IT would be appreciated. Cheers !
i was three years old when this video came out, now im studying it for a highschool assignment lmfao
and not much seems to have changed since you were 3 years old
It'll be ten years soon - can you do a decade update: have things gotten worse or better since then??
Sasha Kelbas worse. trump; bolsonaro
definitely worse…
Much worse, unfortunately.
What's gotten worse is this Global Warming BS and all the minions who blindly follow this alarmism. Remember, all you bleeding hearts, we were supposed to be in an ICE AGE right now! The alarmists predicted that about 25 years ago! HAHAHAHA!
@@mariekiraly100 it must be such bliss to be this uneducated. I kinda envy you for it
Video: Your computer only lasts 2 years
Me: **Laughs in PCMasterace**
gen z doesn't lose a chance to meme
Vid:"a tiny little piece in the corner" Me: that's not even close. God damn it why do you disappoint me?
@@eman7579 exactly
RedacX **Cries in console**
Video: and it’s actually only one little piece in the corner that changes
Me: Yes but......................
Also CPUs don’t change shape
The fact that this video is 12 years ago but it's sad that it's still the same and even became worse 🙂
It's more than 12yrs if Im not mistaken it was made in 2007 & uploaded on TH-cam in 2009
13:20 many factors contribute to the performance of a computer, not just a singular chip. While computer manufacturers are restricting repairability, computer performance is influenced by the RAM, CPU, GPU, cooling system, power supply, and more. Having the most powerful computer doesn't matter if you don't have a cooling system, and the best CPU and GPU on the market won't help if you don't have enough RAM. Furthermore, the internals of a computer are different depending on their form factor. Is it a laptop? An all-in-one desktop? A tower? Was it custom built? The thing is, computers aren't like cars, where it's the same format but refined. Cars today have the same core elements as cars from 50 years ago - four wheels, some seats, a steering wheel, braking system, windshield, etc. Everything today is just a refined version of the stuff from yesterday. But a computer is different. Computers change formats in the way they're designed. The way we store data on computers has completely changed over the years. The solid-state drives today are not refined versions of the punched cards from the 50s. The way we think of computers and make computers constantly changes. Just last year, Apple changed the way they built the computer - instead of having separate computer components, they combined them all into one chip.Their new computers are built on a completely different architecture than Intel Macs, and none of the parts are interchangeable. They didn't just swap out the chip. Please, this video is good, however please try to use proper arguments instead of making shit up.
On that note, this video seems to wrongly demonize incinerators. Yes, we need to reduce our consumption first so that we don't need new landfills or incinerators, but properly designed incinerators burn cleanly and can be useful for both the energy they release and the materials they free up.
13:03 This is wrong,
Being a computer enthusiast, The Desktop computer example is blatantly wrong, She did not take into account the fact that even if the parts aren't compatible, it could still last years. Different devices use different ports so that it doesn’t fry itself. People like her take for granted the one cable that connects a phone to the world. Desktop computers can last for greater than 10 years and even more, and it is not planned obsolescence that technology will improve over time. Things like shrinking silicon is not planned obsolescence. This documentary was released in ‘09, where most newer hardware have settled and most ports are still in use today. For example, RAM, DDR3 was released in ‘07, and was in use until 2017 when DDR4 became mainstream. Even so, there are still computers using the LPDDR3 in 2020 laptops, just because they improved the generation so much, while maintaining compatibility. That is not planned obsolescence. And if the tiny little piece she was referencing was a BIOS chip, different brand motherboards usually have different BIOS chips, because the BIOS is what controls the first steps of turning on a computer and has to be made specific to a certain group of hardware.
ok dude
that part made me facepalm
Not really, you can have that windows 98 computer still working but it won't be compatible with the newer software, and if you try to run that software on your old computer it just won't have the resources to do it. So you're trapped with a windows 98 computer that only works as a typing machine or at best as a multimedia center (mostly for music as recent pictures and videos would also be impossible to run).. and guess what? current society requires you to have an updated computer (newer Excel and Word versions, Google Chrome, Antivirus of course, etc...) so yeah, your old computer serves better as furniture than a computer. And don't get me wrong, I'm totally against this, I personally like to keep my stuff years and years but the video talks true about the planned and perceived obsolescence.
Yeah what they said about the computer thing was really wrong.
@@jurvinx9939 It's a metaphor and her point is clear and correct, so why bother?
Video: People are everywhere
Corona: *Laughs*
Her: start talking
Us: Ok Karen
@@jacobdery8856 u legend lmao
this needs to be shared everywhere.
This video was played into my Social Studies class. I can clearly tell everyone that I almost walked out and ended it all and almost 80% of my class. The lady made me reconsider my sexuality aswell.
Of the 3 million views on this video, 2.8 are from my school. Swear to God we are shown this every. single. year.
I feel so sorry for you.
Kostas Dabi it’s the end of 2018 now (wow 2 years late) and I’ve watched this a total of like 200 times because every year from grade 3-12 my science teacher makes us watch this.
"Do you have one of these?" M'am that iPod is from 1973.
Dark Skull t’was a joke, my friend. But thanks for the history lesson! :)
nice one zoomer
its posted 11 years ago
@@kennethvanleeuwen3122 and you were made 12 years ago
Jennifer Jacobi LMAO
would you believe I've seen this video at least five times within my entire academic career
Very powerful and thought-provoking video. It's so sad to realised how bad of a position we are in after decades of developing without care about sustainability. Make informed choices now for a better future, for ourselves and for the next generations.
I can't get past toxic in, toxic out. As a biochemist, I can assure you that this is simply not true. It's a simple fact of chemistry that if you mix two chemicals, you can get something with totally different properties. Take table salt, for example. Chlorine gas is highly toxic, sodium is highly explosive in water, but when you combine them they make something that we eat every day, even need.
this video is bogus
I agree. This vid made me so angry i had a panic attack on the floor because this was being shown to my brother without counterargument. It was just presented as true to some body who couldn't know better.
Technically true. Also true is you can combine non toxic things and get a toxic byproduct.
Doesn't change the fact that we make an insane amount of toxic pollution during manufacturing.
Her generalizations are overly simplified in this 20 min video on a super complex issue. But does where they are wrong actually refute the existence of the main problems she points out? Those of exceccive pollution, environmental destruction, and needless waste?
The computer she's talking about must be a MAC.
ROASTED
+ChicobunxPonyo Not that I'm defending mac but all computers have the same problems such as cpu connector changes. Macs also have the same internal components as pc's its only the operating system thats different.
>implying that macs are capable of being opened w/o being mangled
+Ka Jacob I was about ready to sell my 2011 macbook and get the shiny new retina one... but then I was like then I can't upgrade it anymore and if anything breaks I basically need a new one so I kept my old one.
exactly
production quality on this video is pretty good for 14 years ago. it was a school assignment but still definitely deserves a like :D
My Social Studies teacher gave me the video in Google Classroom, but I needed two screens so I went on actually TH-cam for it. Much better, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to get a 100 in Social Studies (Wink) I'm at a 95 right now. Have a great day if you're reading this!
You just wanted an excuse to tell us you have 95% didn’t you? Lolll
@@romeesanoory844 Perhaps! But, seriously, the video was quite the help.
Not that I don’t like to brag about my excellent grades, if course.. 😂
I would deduct marks from your grade just for spelling Jordan with a 'y'.
I watched this video for the first time at a Lunch and Learn at my place of employment. It has stuck with me for the last 10 years and it literally changed the way I look at consumerism. Before this video, I didn't even realize there was a problem. Now, I'm an advocate for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Repair and I am a conscientious consumer. Thank you Story of Stuff for changing my impact and the way I think of our world.
Malinda Bills dislike
sorry i mean; like
hopefully you also watched one about 'not breeding' because there are 100s of times too many humans, 'blooming' on a finite detritus energy battery that will shortly go away.. although its pretty sad anybody would actually need to be told the bleedin obvious rather than them just being able to work it out for themselves by looking around. sadly, that is the case. but most will ignore the information. which is why humans are shit and need to go extinct now.
I know! this video is amazing!
This video is very helpful, wish everyone got the message she wants us to see and realize..
COVID-19 is putting a stop to this at the moment.
lmao true
they really are, and it's awesome! People are saying that because people are staying home a lot more that so much pollution is being stopped and so we are saving lives from being lost due to pollution. Sure lots of people are dying from COVID-19, but MORE people have died from pollution.
Well... yes and no because people are panick buying like crazy
this is my fave comment :')
you guys are brain washed to fuck
Despite this being an assignment, this is a really good video. And it shows how capitalism really is the core of the inability for us to be sustainable. At every point of the way, people suffer. Every item, every product, someone was doing labor. Some of it long and gruelling labor. Dangerous labor.
One thing I've learned as a science major, (this was assigned to me in an ecology class) but if you're here for a sociology class, this is a widely applying concept too: it takes a lot more energy to build something rather than to break it. In your life, try to help build or contribute toward a system that works, whatever stage of Stuff you do it in. Every ounce of effort matters.
Unionize. Advocate. Organize. Protest. Vote.
Breastfeeding is not bad for the baby is can help to build immunity and actually contains a shit ton of good nutrients as well as essential minerals
That was the longest 20 minutes of my life
same
unfortunatly same bro, from Turkey
2x speed
lol relatable
facts
Korean war: Jun. 25, 1950 - Jul. 27, 1953. Vietnam War: Nov. 1, 1955 - Apr. 30, 1975. World War II: Sep. 1, 1939 - Sep. 2, 1945.
Gotta wonder why people started feeling a little down in the 1950's
so true, and the way she makes people believe its because of consumerism is absolutely fucking astoundingly stupid
It's a tricky to make a claim about the happiness of a nation almost a century ago. I can't find a definitive source that says the US national happiness peaked in the 1950s. However, I did find some sources that claim the US national happiness has been declining since the 70s. And there are more anxiety and depression patients now than there ever have been. That could be because stigma on mental health has lowered, but it could also be because late capitalism causes us more stress and unhappiness.
@@royisdabest there is a correlation bro, she's not entirely off
And 14 years later, we don’t even need to be watching tv for them to tell us what new stuff we need to improve our lifestyle and happiness, now it’s in our pockets and on our wrists and our glasses, right there waiting and demanding your attention so it’s AI and influencers can tell you what you need next!!!
I would kill for a citation on that claim " 99% of all Items we buy are trashed" Ahh yes the Computer I bout from 2020 and currently using is in the garbage, I forgot! How silly of me! I need to make my consumer quota, it's not like 95% of what I buy is food!
My family has only owned about 4-6 computers since the Windows 98 days. We keep computers FOREVER! Lol
My dad still uses an old smart phone from 12 years ago. Battery doesn't last and it lags like crap, but it works. XD
This video is a load of bunk.
Can't believe I need to watch a 2009 video 11 years later
Actually that is kind of sad
@Anna Avocado No, Its worse
that is still so painfully relevant in its reproaches while completely missing the point when talking about solutions for replacing fossil fuels.
Edit: Holy I've never seen so many likes holyyy
I liked the time when we didn’t have money, we just traded stuff for other stuff, like a bucket for ten sandwiches.
@Kyvrem The Destroyer
, Yeah! The times we still shit in buckets!! awesome!!
Which country are you from? Does your school told you to watch this video as a part of study?
Well the reason money wa invented was for people to always want soemthing, a guy may not want to give up his bucket for 10 sandwiches but if you pay him enough he more likely will
Me too!!!!! I reminisce on this often...
Look up mutualist anarchism, it's basically that but not regressive
People commented saying the saddest thing is we've known so clearly since 2009, but I think it's even sadder that you have to go so far back online/in media to find such a clear and full explanation of the problem. I knew most of the individual parts of this video as separate aspects of the problem, but I don't think I have ever heard/watched the whole picture so bluntly put in my life. Nobody from the media or in so-called environmentalist/activist groups that recycling or renewables will "never be enough". Nobody points to the real cause alone without quickly sidetracking to person-based solutions rather than a public response to strip the private sector of its power.
i mean yay, if you were to force everyone to be hand cuffed and monitored all the time, crime would go down to zero
there is a reason the ussr couldn't beat the us in battle of economic systems, and tones of people from the eastern block were astounded by the wealth and freedoms that the west had
This video IS activist garbage because it takes a problem (however severe it actually is in real life), and simplifies the problem to the point of being insulting.
Not to mention, this is also 15 years old. It might as well be ancient history in relation to how we recycle and clean. Renewable technology has vastly improved since this video
The fact that I see comments from a mere 1-2 years ago from people saying "school assignment" is disheartening.
People are being shown this outdated video and not being told about the huge improvements made in manufacturing to reduce waste and cut down on pollution.
It will never be emission free, but at least we can cut down on it as much as possible.
i hate my sose teacher for making me watch this when i could've done actual productive work
National happiness also went down after the 50s because of the Cold War
I am a fifty year old, I am not in school. I am interested in helping the world be a better place. I hope many more people will do the same.
genuinely enjoy how to animations have a higher definition than the person.
Disturbing and powerful. Happy to view and get inspired to make some changes in my own life, home, community.
Excelente! Aprendo mais a cada vez que assisto.
16:24
I like how she implies that every time we see an ad we buy the thing, and the only reason we go to work is to pay for it, just saying. And we fill our houses with the garbage and just throw it out.
Hey, the best way to make something understandable is to make it simple, and making you react. Psychology, peoples, Psychology.
MAYBE EVERYONE SHOUD STOP buying junk in theres homes other wise your home mite turn in to a hoarders home with all the garbage suff people have!
Ikr 😂 like a lot of the time, people will see an ad and go, “Nah, that looks stupid”
You are aware thats what ads do, right? Youd be silly if you thought they existed for no reason and yet companies run them for the lols.
This is propaganda 101
@@suides4810 Yes, but the video pretty much says, "you see an ad, and are forced to buy it". I'm just saying you don't buy everything you see an ad for.
Watching this 13 years later feeling dread in how much worse it’s gotten. Not to mention I had 6 30second ads during telling me to buy stuff, the irony. We’re doomed
Nearly 14 years since this came out, nothings changed.
*11 years but yeah nothing has changed and that's depressing honestly.
@@sukanyamukherjee2832 The actual thing came out in 2007.
oop oh yea i was just about to get myself in a frenzy and then i looked outside
LOL did anybody else cringe at 13:20 when she said that only one piece of a computer gets outdated each year and you cant just replace that piece. It is many different pieces that get outdated and yes, you can change individual parts
+Jordan Evers And? Most Americans are still going to trash their computer and buy new one because they don't even know how to upgrade a computer. So her point still makes sense.
xjazzyz This video is about "teaching" people the truth right? If that's what she is trying to do, then why not tell us the facts? Then what is the video about? It's clearly not telling us the truth or facts.
Basically, if she is trying to teach us something, but decides not to tell us 1 part because "Most Americans are still going to trash their computer and buy new one because they don't even know how to upgrade a computer." then what is even the point in teaching us anything? Unless she is just ignorant about the facts, then why defend her?
she just plain old dumb
@@xjazzyz No it does not make sense. Doesn't matter how much the general people know. What she said in the video was wrong, it has nothing to do with whether or not people know how to upgrade computer parts. The CPU (the parts she was talking about) is not the only thing that changes and other parts of the other have new releases each year. Besides not all CPUs are different shapes.
*Knowledge is power.*
*the best way to scare a Tory is to read and get rich*
Not my teacher making me watch this an inducing anxiety I wanted to get rid of
sad how so many people say how they were "forced" to watch this...
It's true
It's a shit untrue Video lmao
@@blacknoir3816 I see a third grader who can't accept this fact
@@ProbablyAparrently she said in the first 3 minutes that the us spends half it's gdp on the military, that's just wrong
@@blacknoir3816 Even though it is wrong, she didn't even say gdp, she said tax funds. And even if that part was inaccurate, the majority of the video is actually right.
I'm intrigued that so many people in the comments are just focusing on a certain sentences instead of commenting the whole idea she's talking about.
+Amunet Amun Um... huh?
Amunet Amun I don't understand what you are talking about. What video explanation? What research?
+L KC
The reality is that the majority of Americans are not capable of getting the point.
+L KC Words matter and the devil is in the details.
+Scott Warmbier you sound exactly like my prof.
I like how there are so many comments pointing out small errors in the description of a computer's CPU. Like if they can poke one hole in what she is saying then they can continue to ignore the whole message of the video.
I guess it is just easier to criticize others than take responsibility for our own behavior.
I don't think that mentioning a technical mistake we noticed means ignoring or disagreeing with the rest of the message. Or at least it doesn't mean for me.
Pointing out small mistakes is fine, but thinking that correcting said small mistakes automatically means this video's entire argument is wrong is a complete fallacy and an enormous strawman on the commenters' part.
***** How so? That's a straw man fallacy on your part if I've ever seen one. Everyone makes mistakes--and this channel provides several cited sources to appease fact-checkers that might not believe them. Some of their videos have outdated source links, and they need to update those, that's true--but the majority of their videos do provide sources and support for their claims.
Thinking their entire argument is wrong just for a small mistake like this is inaccurate and lazy. If we want to disprove them, it's best we find actual sources and evidence that go against their *main* points and not just minor ones like the misunderstanding with how CPUs work.
It's called a joke. Jokes are things people say to cause laughter. And it's funny to people how this lady doesn't understand computers.
JamesBerg86 She disregards reality for her own beliefs
Ah yes... Radioshack. The good ol' days when you could go to your local town plaza and get small electronics easily. Resistors, transistors, really all the sisters, were yours for the taking. Miss those days. And circuit city was aight I guess
This comment is underrated.....
Já faz 12 anos e a professora de Geografia indicou este vídeo,professores realmente encontram de tudo no TH-cam.
Meu professor de geografia também
13:12 as someone who loves and knows way too much about tech, this pisses me off. Yes, its one chip - on the outside. On the inside, everything is completely different.
Forgetting that you probably weren't even talking about the CPU, which his hidden behind the cooler, or the GPU (can't blame you, most computers don't have one), you're missing the fact that motherboards are designed to look the same year after year in order to make it easy for the end user to recognize problems and repair PCs. If you were to look at one of Intel's b75 motherboards from 2012, you'll realize that it looks almost exactly the same as one of AMD's current x570 motherboards. Even ignoring the fact that they're from different companies, AMD's latest offering supports PCI-E 4.0 (4x faster than what was on the b75), USB 3.0, Thunderbolt 3, and, arguably most importantly, proper overclocking support. So your point is invalid here.
Now, if you're somehow actually talking about the CPU, which I seriously doubt, that's even worse. Yes, a current AMD Ryzen 9 3950X looks the same as an AMD Athlon 64 from 2003, the underlying architecture is completely different. On the outside, the only visible difference is a change in the number of pins, but on the inside, they are nothing alike. In 17 years, AMD has sliced the silicon size down from 130 nanometers to 7 nanometers. That's right; modern CPUs are built on a scale 1/10000 the width of the average strand of hair. It's no wonder they look the same. Beyond that, the new CPUs have 16x the number of processing units, or cores inside, alongside hyper threading, allowing each core to "act" as 2, so we can (technically) say it has 32x as much power (not really, that's another story). On top of even that, the clock speed has doubled, and the IPC (instructions per clock) has been multiplied. All of the above adds to a processor that is at least 100 times more powerful, despite looking the exact same.
Lastly, you said you can't replace parts yourself. That's a lie. Anybody with the money to buy the necessary upgrades (Most commonly a CPU/Motherboard combo or a GPU), half a brain cell, and a screwdriver can replace parts themselves.
In not doing the research and just telling people that the only way to keep up is to buy a new PC, which is most often one of the most expensive purchases you can make, you're not just lying to them about the problem, you're actively being a part of it.
Holy fuck, my man wrote a godamn essay on why this part of the video is so stupid!
@@torber5655 There are many things I acknowledge I know very little about, and fully understand I likely won't win any arguments related to them.
Technology is not one of those things. Do not get into an argument with me about technology.
Bit much don’t ya think?
yes, good musings.
I had this exact reaction. I built my desktop 8 years ago and because of incremental upgrades i am only now reaching a point where i am considering a totally new machine. To be fair to the point of the video though, companies like Apple which have anti-consumer policies that prevent machine repairs and upgrades DO contribute to the consumption problem.
What this world needs is a revolution.
poop out my butt
The world makes a revolution every day.
i agree
@John Smith Imagine looking at this current social order and essentially saying "I want to use the threat of violence to defend the current way of living"... There are now uprisings that could turn to revolutions globally and none of them are classically "communist". Let's take a page from our Kurdish allies and try democratic confederalism, ie. decentralized, stateless grassroots democracy.
@@NeighborDemocracy the kurdish are anything but Democratic, stealing the land and claiming the history of the ancient Assyrians, and preventing Christians from practicing their religion lmao.
I’ll have a test and my professor told us there will be a question about this. Socioenvironmental management. Very good video!
As many of you here, I also needed to watch this video for a class. However some thing in the video bothered me. on 13:11 the woman tells about the computer piece (supposedly on motherboard). However that is not a correct information. I realize that the video was made 13 years ago, and I can only talk about nowadays. However she states that the piece changes every year. I can state for sure that now the parts of a PC are more or less durable, depending on how you use it and how you maintain your PC. But I have never heard (and I have built a PC by myself) about a part that changes every year and you have to change it. Now you can change any part that malfunctions very easily and no need of dumping the whole PC. Plus she could have just change the motherboard no need of dumping everything.
Who got mad at her about buying a new computer thing
bro I had to stop the video because it pissed me off so much.
Me too
why? whatd she do lolol
@@jakubkozubski5012 lmao
What she said about the buying a new computer thing was bullshit and messed up logic. The thing that she talked about that was changing each year was the CPU. The CPU is not the only computer part that gets new ones released. And they're not all different shapes ( socket type). If they were the only things that change and different shapes every time then how would they even begin to install them into new computers. Besides there are CPUs released years ago with the same socket type, most popular ones are LGA 1151 and and AM4, and intel and amd kept many of they're mainstream CPUs using the same socket type, therefore they're not all changing shape every year. Also motherboards, GPUs/ Graphics cards, cases, every type of PC part gets new releases.
The facts may be inaccurate but does that mean that the message of exponentially increasing consumerism is something to be ignored? I think the important takeout for me - is to consider what each of us can do to reduce the amount we "buy" and reduce the amount we "waste". And to be mindful of the what and where we "buy" and most importantly the why of our buying patterns as well as the potential for external affects from our buying.
everybody in the comments is like "who´s watching this cause of school and quarantine", I think most of us are but really think about it: 11 and a half years later and almost nothing has changed. To be honest, this is just sad, we don´t need to live in a world where we don´t know if our children, grandchildren could live, we shouldn´t have to be worried about that! The materials don´t grow as fast as we want them to, so we use chemicals to make them grow faster, in fact, they don´t even grow much faster and are just destroying them. 11 years ago we knew we had to make a difference and yet not much has changed over a DECADE, a DECADE! Really we can do better and we definitely should!
Wanna give me your summary ;) No just kidding... or am I? I'm working on this assignment right now so I've gotta look at the enire video c r i e s
“Do you have one of these?”
“No”
*11 years ago*
“Ah.”
ok, to see 3000 commercials in a day we must see a comercial each 20 seconds. Considering you sleep 8 hours for a day
Not just TV commercials, but also radio, online photo and video ads, newspapers and magazines, billboards, on public transportation, at sporting and entertainment venues, restaurants, stores . . . Pretty much everywhere we look, we constantly see and/or hear advertisements, but we're so used to them, we don't realize it.
+Michelle R. oh, thats true, but actually I'm "off". I dont watch TV and I dont listen to the radio. Mornings I'm on the school and in the afternoon and night I playing games. So
... I dont see 3000 commercials. ( Sorry for the english, i really think I wrote something wrong)
I definitely don't see 3000 ads per day. I think tens or hundreds is more closer.
You may very well be right, but have you considered there are some ads you "see" but "don't see"?
The brain gets pretty good at filtering out unnecessary stuff so you probably just glance past the majority of ads you see. Also, consider that some ads may not appear as ads and may come in the form of entertainment or information ...
thats my case too
I like that no matter how much I turn resolution up, the woman is always blurry, but pictures quality is top notch.
@Stanisław Drewienkowski
, Yes it really does bring a whole new dimension to the visual aspect of the video! Lovely!
Excellent video. I'm going to share this link in the 'Comments' sections of online news forums, and suggest the readers present it to the youth in their respective communities and to ask them to reflect and comment among themselves about the contents.
I think, this video should be made viral in all local languages. We need the whole world to understand these...
What do we need to do so that we can change the world for the better?
@@kristinacassandradavid6589 yes you are right
7000 trees a minute in the amazon?!?! well now its burning. oops.
Awkward Artist Plays 2000
Who else is here because of school? :P
+Marisa Travassos yes but I actually really enjoyed the video. It's stuff that we kinda already know is happening to some degree. But this kinda lays it out nicely and makes it more clear. People need to know that this kind of stuff is happening
+Marisa Travassos meeeeee
+Dylan Schwarz then you enjoy being lied to
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+Marisa WasHere Me, and I hate the video.
I am here because of one homework. But this video helps me looking at the world in different perspective.
13 years old....This video is 13 years old. Oh how time a gone by so fast, yet so slow.
Truly a work of genius. THANK YOU!!
Brilliant! Love it!
when she says "have you ever wondered" at 14:37 it sounds exactly like "have you ever wondered what's going on in side someone's head?"
Inside out lol
I watched this video on a whim and it has changed my life. I now cannot look at a product sitting on a shelf without thinking about this whole cycle and all the people who have suffered to get it in front of me for that price. There's such an overwhelming guilt. I've definitely cut down on useless shopping but I can't stop thinking that it's so useless for me to change my habits at all, given that the product is still there on the shelf, and the damage has already been done.