Story of Stuff
One of my friends forwarded me the link to this website http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html. I really liked the site, Annie Leonard makes a pretty powerful presentation. I would strongly recommend visiting this site if you have not already. This presentation certainly got me thinking. Is there something in that presentation that I did not know already? Not really. I might not have known the finer details, but I certainly knew the overall picture. Have I done anything about it except for occasionally feeling guilty about not doing anything? Not really again. Why? Am I too lazy? Probably yes. But I think the most important reason is that subconsciously I feel that it would take a huge effort to do something. Somehow I get into this mental framework where I convince myself that the only sensible thing to tackle the problem is to do something grand -- like gather people and organize rallies to raise awareness. Or something similar. Since I can easily convince myself that I do not have...