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Cycle that shows where things come and go

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The Material’s economy

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The Materials economy

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Extraction, Distribution, Consumption, and Disposal

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Why is Material’s economy in crisis?

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It’s a linear system and our world is not simple but complex

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In this system some people matter more than others

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The material’s economy

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Extraction

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Natural resource exploitation ( trashing the planet)

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Production

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Using energy to mix toxins in with the natural resources to make toxic-contaminated products

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Distribution

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Selling as much toxic items to people willing to buy them

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Explains how the real price of making stuff isn’t represented in the store price

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Externalized costs

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Relates to how much we consume, especially when we shop

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Consumption

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In North America, what percent of what we buy is trashed in 6 months?

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99%

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Planned obsolescence

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Involves making products to be as useless as possible so that people can trash it quickly and buy new products

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Perceived obsolescence

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Persuades us to throw away stuff that are perfectly useful

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How do we get rid of our garbage?

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Putting it in landfills or burning it, releasing toxins back into the air as new super toxins like dioxin

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What are some solutions?

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Sustainability, equity, and green chemistry, closed loop production, renewable energy, and local living economies

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What percentage of our federal tax money goes to military?

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More than 50%

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What is bigger than the government?

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Corporations

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Of 100 largest economies, how many are corporations?

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51

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What is our first limit?

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We are running out of resources

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In the past 3 decades, how much of the planet’s natural resource space has been gone/consumed?

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1/3

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How much of original forest does the United States have left?

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<4%

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What percent of waterways have become undrinkable?

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40%

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What percent is us compared to the worlds population?

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5%

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What percent of the worlds resources does the U.S consume?

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30%

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What percent of the world’s waste is the U.S responsible for?

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30%

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What percent of the planet’s original forest are gone?

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80%

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In the Amazon alone, how many trees a minute are we losing?

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2,000 trees, equivalent to 7 football fields

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If everyone consumed at the U.S rates how many planets would we need?

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3-5

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What percent of global fisheries are fished at or beyond capacity?

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75%

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How many synthetic chemicals are there?

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Over 100,000

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How many of synthetic chemicals have been tested for synergistic health impacts?

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None

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What are BFRs?

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Brominated Flame Retardants

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What do BFRs do?

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Makes things more fire proof, yet very toxic(neurotoxic)

- found in computers, couches, mattresses, even some pillows

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How many of over 100,000 synthetic chemicals have been tested on health impacts?

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Only a few

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Synergistic

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How synthetic chemicals interact with other chemicals we are exposed to everyday

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Why is has human breast milk become dangerous?

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It has a high level of many toxic contaminants

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Why are factory workers( women of reproductive age) working with toxins, carcinogens?

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They have no other options

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Globally, how many people a day are moving from environments that have sustained them for generations into cities( slums), looking for work, no matter how toxic?

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200,000 people

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How much pollution does the U.S admit to releasing in a year?

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4 billion pounds

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What is another limit?

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Pollution

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How does a lot of the pollution that we export come back to us?

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Through wind currents

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Distribution goal?

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Keep the prices down, keep the people buying and keep the inventory moving

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Who pay for the products you “buy” at the store?

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People with the loss of their natural resource space, people with the loss of the clean air, kids in the Congo paid with their future

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What percentage of kids in the Congo drop out of school to mine metals?

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30%

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What is our primary identity?

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Consumers

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How much does the average person consume now compared to 50 years ago?

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Twice as much

45
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Designed for the dump

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Planned obsolescence

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Play a big role in planned obsolescence

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Advertisements and media

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How many advertisements in a day does each individual in the U.S see?

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3,000

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We see more advertisements in one year than people 50 years ago saw in

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Their lifetime

49
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Our national happiness is…

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Declining

50
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When did our national happiness peak?

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1950s

51
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Some analysts say that we have less leisure time than any time since…

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Feudal society

52
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What are the two main activities we do with our leisure time

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Watch tv and shop

53
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In the U.S we spend 3-4 times as many hours shopping than our counterparts in…

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Europe

54
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What kind of treadmill are we stuck in?

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Work, watch, spend

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What has happened to our average house size since the 1970’s?

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It has doubled

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How much garbage does each individual in the U.S make in a day?

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4.5 pounds( twice of what we made each 30 years ago)

57
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Garbage is burned in an…

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Incinerator and then dumped in the landfill

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What happens when we put garbage in landfills or incinerator?

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We pollute the air, land, water and change the climate

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Recycling reduces garbage but…

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Recycling is not enough

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Why can’t a lot of garbage be recycled?

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It contains too many toxins or it’s designed to not be recyclable in the first place

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New mindset:

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Sustainability, green chemistry, equity, zero waste, closed loop production, renewable energy, local living economies

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