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The Story of Stuff : How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health - and a Vision for Change by Leonard, Annie is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 million times by people around the world. In her sweeping, groundbreaking book of the same name, Leonard tracks the life of the Stuff we use every day—where our cotton T-shirts, laptop computers, and aluminum cans come from, how they are produced, distributed, and consumed, and where they go when we throw them out. Like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff is a landmark book that will change the way people think—and the way they live. Leonard’s message is startlingly clear: we have too much Stuff, and too much of it is toxic. Outlining the five stages of our consumption-driven economy—from extraction through production, distribution, consumption, and disposal—she vividly illuminates its frightening repercussions. Visiting garbage dumps and factories around the world, Leonard reveals the true story be

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Author

Leonard, Annie

Publisher

Free Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781849010382

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Nature, Sociology

Rating

3.99 / 5 (2,122 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14