Review by pbobrit - The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change

A review by pbobrit
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard

4.0

Probably not the best book to read just before Christmas, but still a good and very scary read. I did not see the film that this book accompanies it. It follows all the steps 'Stuff' (anything we consume), from the extraction of the raw materials to make it all the way through to the disposal mechanisms we use when it is discarded, and there are some very worrying insights in there. Leonard in the end is advocating a 'Zero Waste' philosophy, which is an achievable goal (New Zealand apparently is aiming for this as well with some success), but for the US and a lot of the developed world needs some radical changes to get anywhere close. A dense but interesting read for anyone interested in this kind of area.

A review by pbobrit The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard

A review by pbobrit
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard