Re-Post: “It’s pretty amazing that our society has reached a point where…”
Think about the real cost of your spoon, take a minute and really think about it.
A good friend forwarded this to me and I felt it was worth re-posting. It so simply and clearly illustrates how our society has decoupled the true cost of a product from our experiences with it. If we saw first hand what goes into making the stuff we use, we would be more reluctant to dispose of things so casually.
The text reads: “It’s pretty amazing that our society has reached a point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the groud, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic, shape it appropriately, truck it to a store, buy it, and bring it home is considered to be less effort than what it takes to just wash the spoon when you’re done with it.”
