final project - Essay #2

Name: Ali Ahmed Yousef

ID : H00247437

Section: CEP

Words: 836

Final Project – Essay 2

Introduction:

The story of stuff by Annie Leonard (SOS, 2012) is a presentation about stuff where it comes from and how it is consumed.“The stuff moves through a system from Extraction to Production to Distribution to Consumption to Disposal all together is called the materials economy” (story of stuff / 2012). All of the people in the world think that this looks like it’s fine but the truth is that the system is in trouble.

Extraction:

In this whole system, the most important thing missing is the people. We will start with the Extraction witch is mean the Natural Resource Exportation witch is a good word for trashing up the planet such as chopping down the trees, blowing up mountains, use up all the water and killing all the animals in this issue its results is running out of limits and resources. People use to much stuff without knowing the truth and that should somebody tell the people to know and relays what they are doing and what they are losing as a results of their actions. Some of the people action results is that 75% of the global fishers are fished at the Arabian capacity and 80% of the planet the original forests are dispensed at the amazon loaned people lose 2000 tree per minute and all of the above the government don’t care what the people who live under these resources they just care about what they can gain of these resources.

Production:

The second stage of the destroying the natural source is moving the materials to production and what’s going there is that they use many energy to mix toxic comical types in comers and non-have been tested for their health effect ions nobody of the people care about these poisoned materials danger and effects there health. Many poor people who live in the destroyed places move from there to cities and work in factories and they gain poisons comical in there body and they don’t have any idea about this systems risks.

Distribution:

The third disaster point is after the production the materials moves to distribution, distribution means selling all the toxic materials quickly as possible the goal there is making the things cheaper and keeping the prizes down to keep the consumers buying, and the way of keeping the prizes down is by not paying the workers a lot of money and let them to skip there health insurance every time they have a chance to get it.

Consumption:

The most important point of all this system is most of the consumers use the stuff for a while like for six months after it was bought, in North America from 5% to 20% until it reach 1% all of the stuff go to the trash in other words 99% of these stuff becomes trash after six months.

Disposal:

The last stage of waste and disaster in this system is when it reach to disposal it’s like all the inventors invent technology devices and the fastest way to break up to let the consumers buy the same device but the new version because with the old one the consumers can’t replace new model parts to the old one and make it like the new version device so the consumers must trash them away and get a new one the point that the people must know, that why most of the people buy things and then through them away and get brand new things and losing useless money and without any difference. However, Perceived Obsolescence is the way of people deal with their stuff throwing them and it’s still not broken and it can be used for years and these actions come by the inventions changing the stuff looks to make the consumers interested with these new look stuff.

Consumerism in the UAE:

Consumers in UAE and Qatar plan to save more during the next few months, than in other countries in the region, amidst the current economic recession, reveals a new survey by MasterCard. Consumers in the UAE had very much related to the credit crunch and global economic downturn the problem of consumerism. The percentage of respondents in the UAE accessing the internet for shopping increased from 29% in 2009 to 42% in 2010 the people use mostly the Master card survey on online shopping and it was compared to 33% in 2011. The UAE , while rooted in Middle Eastern custom, is seeing a more cosmopolitan , consumer – oriented lifestyle, buoyed by oil revenues , massive infrastructure developments and a growing multinational workforce.

Conclusion:

Finally, in my opinion this system causes many disaster in human life, and that’s not good , so we must find a solution for this issue to make life better for us and other people and all this problem is not from the people to let them solve this it’s the governments problem to solve instead for being at rest and watching all the people have a hard and bad life and make it better.

References

A Word A Day (in the UAE): Consumerism. (2009, February 27). A Word A Day (in the UAE). Retrieved December 11, 2012, from http://word-a-day-uae.blogspot.com/2009/02/consumerism.html

Ashok, S. M. (2011, March 17). UAE consumers get more online-friendly: MasterCard | Latest news in Information & Technology, Analysis, Insights, Middle East. Computer News Middle East Online - Information Technology News, Analysis, Insights and Case Studies. Retrieved December 11, 2012, from http://www.cnmeonline.com/features/uae-consumers-get-more-online-friendly-mastercard/

The United Arab Emirates Consumer - Behaviour, Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Food Products. (2010, October 22). Agri-Food Trade Service | Service d'exportation agroalimentaire. Retrieved December 11, 2012, from http://www.ats.agr.gc.ca/afr/5661-eng.htm

UAE tops the list among saving-conscious consumers - Dubai News UAE. (2009, September 18). Dubai Information Guide - Visit and Living in Dubai City UAE. Retrieved December 11, 2012, from http://www.guide2dubai.com/925-UAE-tops-the-list-among-saving-conscious-consumers.html

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