Do you this? I have little possess with my fact. I have little possess with all my stuff. Have you comes from and where go only through without it? I couldn't stop wondering about that. So I looked it up. And with the text book said, is that the stuff move through a system, from extraction, to production, to distribution, to consumption, to the sp. All together it's called material's economy. Well, I looked into a little bit more. In fact, I spent ten years traveling the world, tracking where a stuff comes from and where it goes. And you know what I found out? That is not the whole story. There is a lot missing from the explanation For one thing, this system looks like it’s fine, no problem. But the truth is, it's a system in crisis. The reason the system in crisis is it's a system and we live on a planet and you can not run a system on a planet indefinitely. Every step belong away, this system is in a acting with real world. In real it's not happening on a blank way page. It's in a acting with societies, cultures, economies, the environment, and all long away is against its limits. Limits we don't see here because the diagram is incomplete. So let's go back through. Let's fill in some of the blanks and see what's missing. One the most important things it's missing is people. Yes, people, people live and work all along the system. And some people in the system matter a little more than others, some have little more say. Who were they? Well, let's start with the government. Now my friends tell me she just tank to symbolize the government and that's true in many countries increasingly in our own. After all, more than 50% of our federal tax money is now going to the military. But I'm using a person to symbolize the government, because I hold true to the vision in values that the government should after the people, buy the people, for the people. It's the government's job to watch out of for us, to take care of us, that's their job. Then, a long we call corporation. Now the reason corporation looks bigger than the government is that the corporation is bigger than the government. Of the 100 largest economies on earth now, fifty one are corporations. And as the corporation as grown in size and power, we see a little change in the government whether a little more concerned in making everything is working out for those guys than for us. Ok, so let’s see what else is missing from this picture. We start with extraction which is world for natural resource exploitation, which is a world for trashing the planet. Would this looks like is we down the trees, we plore out mountain to get the metals inside, we used about the water and we wide about the animals, so here we are running out began the first limit. We are running out of resources, we are using too much stuff. Now I know this can be hard to hear but it’s the truth we’ve got deal with it. In the past three decades alone, one third of the planet natural resources then consumed, gone. We are cutting and mining and holing and trashing the place so fast. They were undermining the planet very ability for the people to live here. Where I live in United States, we have less than 4% of our original forest left, 40% of the waterway become undrinkable. And our problem is not just they were using too much stuff, but were using more than our share. We have 5% of the world’s population but were using 30% of world’s resources and creating 30% of the world’s waste. If everybody consumed US rates, we would need three to five planets. And you know what before the god won? So my country’s response to this limitation is simply to go and take somebody else’s. This is the third world, which some would say is another world for our stuff that somehow garden somebody else is land. So what is that look like? The same thing, trashing the place. 75% of global fishery is now are fished at a beyond capacity. 80% of the planet original forests are gone. In the Amazon alone we are losing 2,000 trees in a minute that is seven football fields a minute. And what about the people who live here? Well, according to these guys, they don’t own these resources; even they have been living there for generations. They only means production and buying a lot of stuff. And in this system, if you don’t own or buy a lot of stuff, you don’t have value.
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