Our current linear system of production is quite opaque as we are lead into a false sense of awareness of a flawless method, but Annie Leonard reveals that it is far from this. Calamaties such as climate change, disease and harmful wastes are a result of the system that doesn’t take into account natural factors and limits including us as humans.
Annie Leonard has revealed and educated on how our world is run by industries and not for people. Corporations are depleting our finite natural resources and thrive on over consumption. Apparently, according to Leonard, 80% of the earths natural resources are gone.
This was a huge shock to me and really opened my eyes of how not only corporations, but we collectively as individuals are responsible for this because of our consumer driven ways. Annie reveals how everyone is so concerned with the commercial world that the quality of life in terms of happiness has dropped since the 1950s. People are working more to spend more.
A moral question for industrial designers is whether is to change the way we design and mass produce in risk of our careers, or continue and risk our future lives. It is clear to see that there must be a change if we want our future generations to be happy, or even have a life. Money makes the world go around, but what happens when theres no world left?
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