How stuff works
Introduction:
Annie Leonard is the person who made the
Story of Stuff (2007). It is a short animated documentary that Annie Leonard
talks about the true five stages which they are extraction, production,
distribution, consumption and disposal that most products go through.
Extraction:
"Extraction means taking the
planet’s resources- wood, minerals, coal, fossil fuel, water, plants, animals,
and soil out of the earth and starting their journey through the materials
economy"(2007). Extraction can have bad effects on the environment, one
example is that the earth works in a way that it could renew its natural
sources at a certain time but the problem is that people in that field
consuming and trashing more than the earth can renew .on top of that the
process of extraction causes destroying of forests , climate change and
creating pollution .one of the health
problems caused by extraction is it increased the percentage of some diseases
like asthma, respiratory and other ailments.
Production:
Production is "the processes and methods
used to transform tangible
inputs (raw materials,
semi-finished
goods, subassemblies)
and intangible
inputs (ideas,
information,
knowledge)
into goods
or services"(What
is production? definition and meaning, 2013). To produce goods
to sell to consumer there are factors which they are labor, funds and raw
materials. In this process they add poisoned chemical to the earth's natural
resources to create poisoned products. Most people who catch poisons are the
factory workers. Protecting people in the workplace is a basic job of companies
but workers are still getting poison by consumer goods. Companies move their
factories overseas to places where workers have fewer rights and fewer
earnings, in a place where public cannot access to get information about the
companies work.
Distribution:
Distribution "is about how a business gets its products to the customers"(Riley, J.2012).Transporting and
selling all goods quickly and inexpensively are part of distribution. "The objective of
distribution is clear. It is: To make products available in the right place at
the right time in the right quantities"(Riley, J.2012). Distributing
causes environmental problems such as transporting all goods from the factory
to shopping malls and stores can lead to road traffics which it will increase
greenhouse gases that will harm the planet. Distribution has a bad health
impact on workers in the company and the costumers. The bad health effect on
the workers, who get a low payment to cover their health care, is it increases
their stress. When it comes to consumers instead of walking to local community they
stress their selves by driving to malls.
Consumption:
The percentage of
consumption nowadays is not reasonable and not equal so it needs to be changed.
"Products that no-one in their right
mind could truly justify as necessary, adorn every shelf and showroom, enticing
towards wasteful and thoughtless consumption. Regrettably, this is considered
part of the acceptable goal of 'economic growth"(Consumerism and
Over-consumption. 2013). Consumption has bad effects on people
physical and mental health. In the recent years the typical of workers is
working additional hours which it leads to more consumption, watching TV for
hours and spending money on buying products. The most dangerous act of
consumption is trashing the planet and the neighborhood.
Disposal:
Disposal is "the act or means of getting
rid of something"(disposal - definition of disposal by the Free
Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. 2013).
All the products those no longer are useable or they are waste their going to
disposed by burning them or dumping them or their going to recycle. Recycling
would not be a good idea if the products had a high percentage of toxic. Waste
would pollute the air, water and land if they have been burned or dumped.
Disposal has bad health effect on all creatures, the air could contain toxics
which it would poison the animals or plants which it would effects on the
humans who going to eat them.
Consumerism in the UAE:
One of the main
causes of the financial problems in the UAE families and residents is
consumerism. The percentage of consumerism is high because the majority of
families have a high earning Because of the way of consumerism people in the
UAE are stressful and feeling terrible about the challenges of daily life. The
most important cause of high consumerism in the UAE is marketing companies they
trig people to spend their money to buy products. "Too much consumerism is harmful to
individuals, to societies-at-large and, as we can see now, to the entire global
community"(Bruce, D.2009).To decrease the percentage of consumerism
in the UAE the government should use it sources to protect people from getting
in this problem too much consumerism.
Conclusion:
There are five stages that most products go
through them "The stages of the cycle are extraction,
production, distribution, consumption and disposal" (Kim,
B.2011). In
extraction they use the planet's resources. In production they change the
planet's resources into products those can be use. In distribution they
transport the products to stores to sell them. People consume more than they
need. All products that not useable they going to disposing. Consumerism in the
UAE causes an enormous financial problem which it can be solved by the
government
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