A review by femke495
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

The information in this book is a bit outdated since it’s been written in 2010. Unfortunately it should have been way more outdated than it is.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...