Watch the following video and answer the questions below: https://youtu.

be/9GorqroigqM

The Story of Stuff

1. What are the steps involved in getting “stuff” in the flow chart?

Extraction Production Distribute Consumption Disposal

2. Why is this said to be a “linear model”?

It’s because the trash is the end of the process and in that why you don’t recycle, you just buy
new products
3. What is the significance of developed countries (North America, or U.S and Canada) using 3rd
world countries resources? Why do we do this? What will this cause?
It’s a negative impact because it damaged the environment that doesn’t even is themselves, making
the other people leave their places just because they spent almost all their resources.
4. What happens at production?
People use chemical products, damaging the health of the people that work there. The cause a lot of
pollution and spent a lot of energy to transform the resources into a product. Produces cancer.
5. What groups are at the biggest risk for accumulating toxins in their system?
Babies. People who work in production factories.

6. What happens to the people who move out of the areas we have stripped for resources?
They started work in production factories and get sick

7. What does “distribution” mean?

It is the main part of the model, it is the core. People went there to spent their money in
things that they doesn’t money. The adds plays an important rule here.
8. How are prices kept down?
Everything is paid by those people who left their native location, their health and other things
because the factories need their natural resources.
9. If the price of stuff does not reflect the true costs of its extraction and production, who pays for it?
All the people who lost something because of the factories

10. What does “externalization of costs” of production mean?

We actually don’t paid what we must because of those people who people who is in risk. Other
people paid for it.
11. Why does consumption “drive” the system?
Because without the consumption the model doesn’t work. The consumption is the core of the
economy system; here is where the money moves.
12. What percentage of materials in North America are still in use six months after their date of sale?
Just 1% of the materials.

13. How can we run a planet on this level of materials?

With a cicle model, recicle and stop buying things that we don’t need.

14. Who “designed” our consumer oriented society?

Government and corps.

15. What seems to be the ultimate purpose of the American economy?

To produce more things and make people to buy and then waste it.
16. What is "planned obsolescence"? Give some examples.
To produce a thing with a short lifetime. Examples: Apple.
17. What is “perceived obsolescence”? Give some examples.
It is when people think that they need to update the products they have. Example: Clothes. Tech.
18. What seems to be happening to “happiness” in North America? Why?
To buy and update the things they have. Because of the economy. Consumption.
19. What are the two main leisure time activities?
Watch TV and buy.

20. Why do we seem to be on a treadmill of work watch spend?

Because of the advertisement, people feel bad if they don’t spend in new trends.
21. Why is incineration bad?
Because of the toxic chemical, like dioxin.

22. Which two places in the linear model does recycling help to reduce?
Trash and natural resources
23. What can you do?
Broke the model, recycle and be aware, teach the others
24. Over the course of this week, have you thought twice about “buying” some “stuff”? Will you give
more thought to your purchases in the future?
I feel like aware of buying.