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Planète jetable: produire, consommer, jeter, détruire by Xavier Guesnu, Annie Leonard, Ariane Conrad
emilysea's review against another edition
5.0
made me rethink and reevaluate a lot of things I do...it's basically a more in-depth look at the material presented in her video shorts...love annie leonard!
samizimecki's review against another edition
4.0
While a little dry at times, Leonard does a good job of really helping us look at the big picture by evaluating our everyday actions (and the consequences) on a smaller scale and relating the two. Also I work in transportation, so I found all the supply chain aspects so interesting.
The info can just be a bit chunky at times, but Leonard never comes across as condescending and manages to leave the reader with a bit of hope that there's still time to make a difference and help the environment.
The info can just be a bit chunky at times, but Leonard never comes across as condescending and manages to leave the reader with a bit of hope that there's still time to make a difference and help the environment.
kezreading's review against another edition
1.0
O livro gasta mais páginas em defesa a social-democracia e sendo anti-capitalista do que conta a história das coisas.
Os males do consumismo:
Eu não sou uma grande defensora do consumismo exagerado, apesar de ser uma grande defensora do livre mercado, reconheço que o consumo compulsório ser maléfico para muita gente, assim como qualquer compulsão. Entretanto, a autora é infeliz ao tentar apontar os problemas do consumismo, apresenta correlações sem provas nenhuma, a maior parte dos argumentos são de forte apelo emocional.
A autora da exemplo dos EUA que é um país com alto poder bélico, alto consumo e com baixo bem-estar populacional e compara com países que praticamente aboliram armas e exércitos, baixo consumo e tem alto bem-estar populacional, uma comparação sem fundamento nenhum e sem dados que comprovam que esses quesitos têm relação com bem-estar; um país como Israel, por exemplo, possui um grande poder bélico, alto consumo e é um dos países com a população mais feliz do mundo.
De quem é a culpa?
No último capítulo do livro é apresentado soluções para redução do consumo e do lixo e algumas das soluções dependem do indivíduo. Porém, a maior parte do livro é culpabilizando terceiros: "a sociedade", "o sistema", "o estado", ou seja, culpando agentes não morais que não fazem nada e nem tem poder para fazer.
Quando terceirizamos a culpa para entidades não morais naturalmente tiramos a culpa dos indivíduos, e se a culpa é "do sistema, do estado, da sociedade" então quem teria que resolver são eles. O problema é que esses agentes não resolvem e não fazem nada, porque não existem. O que existe são um conjunto de indivíduos conscientes, que esses sim, poderiam fazer algo se entendessem que só depende deles.
No caso do estado não poder (nem dever) resolver é ainda mais difícil de entender para a maioria afinal existe uma grande dependência e esperança por parte da população. Não vou me aprofundar no problema de um estado paternalista, mas ainda se encaixa na questão de terceirização da culpa.
Enfim, o livro teria potencial se não fosse o forte apelo emocional e defesa da social-democracia sem fundamento nenhum.
Os males do consumismo:
Eu não sou uma grande defensora do consumismo exagerado, apesar de ser uma grande defensora do livre mercado, reconheço que o consumo compulsório ser maléfico para muita gente, assim como qualquer compulsão. Entretanto, a autora é infeliz ao tentar apontar os problemas do consumismo, apresenta correlações sem provas nenhuma, a maior parte dos argumentos são de forte apelo emocional.
A autora da exemplo dos EUA que é um país com alto poder bélico, alto consumo e com baixo bem-estar populacional e compara com países que praticamente aboliram armas e exércitos, baixo consumo e tem alto bem-estar populacional, uma comparação sem fundamento nenhum e sem dados que comprovam que esses quesitos têm relação com bem-estar; um país como Israel, por exemplo, possui um grande poder bélico, alto consumo e é um dos países com a população mais feliz do mundo.
De quem é a culpa?
No último capítulo do livro é apresentado soluções para redução do consumo e do lixo e algumas das soluções dependem do indivíduo. Porém, a maior parte do livro é culpabilizando terceiros: "a sociedade", "o sistema", "o estado", ou seja, culpando agentes não morais que não fazem nada e nem tem poder para fazer.
Quando terceirizamos a culpa para entidades não morais naturalmente tiramos a culpa dos indivíduos, e se a culpa é "do sistema, do estado, da sociedade" então quem teria que resolver são eles. O problema é que esses agentes não resolvem e não fazem nada, porque não existem. O que existe são um conjunto de indivíduos conscientes, que esses sim, poderiam fazer algo se entendessem que só depende deles.
No caso do estado não poder (nem dever) resolver é ainda mais difícil de entender para a maioria afinal existe uma grande dependência e esperança por parte da população. Não vou me aprofundar no problema de um estado paternalista, mas ainda se encaixa na questão de terceirização da culpa.
Enfim, o livro teria potencial se não fosse o forte apelo emocional e defesa da social-democracia sem fundamento nenhum.
femke495's review against another edition
4.0
The information in this book is a bit outdated since it’s been written in 2010. Unfortunately it should have been way more outdated than it is. The problems described in this book are still ongoing ten years later. We still produce too much, too fast, too unsustainable and too wasteful. And even though this book focuses mostly on the US (and uses the Netherlands a few times as an example of how it could be done better :) it kinda scares me that the author, at the end of the book, writes an image of the future of how we could live as a society, as humans, together and not use 5 earths in a year to sustain our way of life like it is right now, that everything she describes could be possible right now. She doesn’t come up with futuristic ideas or impossible things that still need to be invented. It’s so simple to make our way of living, of spending our money and time and of our producing of stuff, sustainable; Sharing, leasing, lesser working hours, greener and cleaner energy, less production, more quality etc... still, ten years later, not much has changed...
shannoliver's review against another edition
3.0
A few misleading comparisons, but overall a well informed and entertaining book. I especially liked the Appendix 2 on page 260 where she discussed individual actions one can take, and why to even bother in such a vast system.
Although we probably won't make a dent individually, every purchase we make reflects our individual values. And if we all do it, then it's our community's values, and not corporations, that are reflected in the world.
Although we probably won't make a dent individually, every purchase we make reflects our individual values. And if we all do it, then it's our community's values, and not corporations, that are reflected in the world.
materialambition's review against another edition
3.0
horrifying. should be mandatory reading in high school. fuck catcher in the rye
shelley_pearson's review against another edition
4.0
This book kind of reminded me of Gone Girl, because it was well-written, but I didn’t really enjoy reading it. And both books left me feeling pretty bummed about the state of humanity. I listened to this one on audiobook, and it was read by the author, which I usually like. But I wish Annie Leonard had chosen another reader, maybe someone with a more soothing voice? I honestly don’t know if I would have finished the book if I were reading it, since listening is so much easier, but even still, I never looked forward to getting back into it. Starting at about hour 10 (the audio book was 14 hours) I pretty much always felt like, “oh great, I have to listen to that lady yell at me again.”
I mean, I know it’s not Annie Leonard’s fault that humans are using more resources than the Earth can replenish, and that US Americans especially are treating the planet like our personal plastic factory/garbage can. And at one point, she referenced people feeling overwhelmed and like there’s so much to do and so much wrong that you end up feeling like “What’s the point?” I don’t think that was her goal with this book, but it did make me feel like that. Often, when I read environmental books, I feel like individual people can’t make that much of a change, because the big polluters are big corporations. This book had plenty of nasty stories about corporations, like how they’ll go into a country and completely wreck their* ecosystem and drain their resources, and then refuse to take responsibility or compensate the residents. One sentence in the first chapter really stuck with me, something like that we should be living in harmony with the planet, but instead we treat it like an endless supply of resources and like it’s just something we can mine and drain like that won’t be a problem.
I recently read Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter, and it was interesting how differently the two authors viewed the global system. Adam Minter had this attitude like “Yes, people in other countries are recycling our crap with toxic chemicals and without safety guidelines or equipment, but they like it! They can make much more money this way than by farming! And Americans keep buying stuff and having junk to recycle, so at least someone will deal with it!” But honestly, I appreciated that Annie Leonard didn’t stop there. She pushed it further, like looking into WHY people couldn’t make as much money farming, and questioning how the USA treats the whole world like it’s cool for us to come in and steal resources and grossly underpay workers, and then ship our toxic trash back when we’re done with it. From the introduction, The Story of Stuff is pretty straightforward about challenging capitalism, which is cool but also made me feel pretty overwhelmed. Like “I’m sorry, you’re not just going to tell me which brands of shampoo I should buy, but you’re going to talk about how we have to take down the entire system, cut military spending, AND switch to a 20-hour work week?” It’s a lot. It makes sense, but jeez.
*I say THEIR, but I know it’s all connected, and the book did point that out. The toxic rivers just flow into the oceans and into the water system and we all just end up screwed.
I mean, I know it’s not Annie Leonard’s fault that humans are using more resources than the Earth can replenish, and that US Americans especially are treating the planet like our personal plastic factory/garbage can. And at one point, she referenced people feeling overwhelmed and like there’s so much to do and so much wrong that you end up feeling like “What’s the point?” I don’t think that was her goal with this book, but it did make me feel like that. Often, when I read environmental books, I feel like individual people can’t make that much of a change, because the big polluters are big corporations. This book had plenty of nasty stories about corporations, like how they’ll go into a country and completely wreck their* ecosystem and drain their resources, and then refuse to take responsibility or compensate the residents. One sentence in the first chapter really stuck with me, something like that we should be living in harmony with the planet, but instead we treat it like an endless supply of resources and like it’s just something we can mine and drain like that won’t be a problem.
I recently read Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter, and it was interesting how differently the two authors viewed the global system. Adam Minter had this attitude like “Yes, people in other countries are recycling our crap with toxic chemicals and without safety guidelines or equipment, but they like it! They can make much more money this way than by farming! And Americans keep buying stuff and having junk to recycle, so at least someone will deal with it!” But honestly, I appreciated that Annie Leonard didn’t stop there. She pushed it further, like looking into WHY people couldn’t make as much money farming, and questioning how the USA treats the whole world like it’s cool for us to come in and steal resources and grossly underpay workers, and then ship our toxic trash back when we’re done with it. From the introduction, The Story of Stuff is pretty straightforward about challenging capitalism, which is cool but also made me feel pretty overwhelmed. Like “I’m sorry, you’re not just going to tell me which brands of shampoo I should buy, but you’re going to talk about how we have to take down the entire system, cut military spending, AND switch to a 20-hour work week?” It’s a lot. It makes sense, but jeez.
*I say THEIR, but I know it’s all connected, and the book did point that out. The toxic rivers just flow into the oceans and into the water system and we all just end up screwed.