Material process
Introduction
The
story of stuff explains about the diversity and environment in
5 steps. We learned the countries depend on the economy and
consumption of the individual and the community, but there the company
has superior power than government so they have authority on the economy. But the environment is exposed
to side effects which put them
in a grave danger
after using resources and increasing the proportion
of pollution.
Extraction
The first step is called extraction. Resources exploitation is
important for us to survive, but nowadays the natural resources are being over
used. That increase in the natural resources exploitation is threating the
humans live in the long run. According to the video one third of the planet has
been extracted in the past three decade. There are many reasons that make the
resources under pressure. Some of those reasons
are the incredible increase in technologies that could be used for extraction
the materials, For example in the past if someone tried to cut a tree by using
saw that would take minutes and some cases hours, but now with the new machines
cutting a tree would only take few seconds. The second possible reason is the
high increasing ratio in population.
Production
The second part of the stuff story is the production. According to
the American Heritage Dictionary production is “The creation of value or wealth
by producing goods and services“. In this phase the resources that have been
extracted is turned to new stuff by using chemicals, machines and lots of
energy so they can use these new stuff in producing more complex materials such
as mobile phones, cars and furniture. During the production many toxic
chemicals are used and produced, so that toxic chemicals are included in some
of the stuff that we have in work and home even in air that we breathe. In fact
if that is the case that means we are been effected by those toxics all the
time.
Distribution
The third step is Distribution. Distribution
is defined by the process of marketing and supplying produced materials.
Distribution is the phase of movement where all goods move from the production
source to the markets and then to the customers. It also referred to the
movement of payment from the customer to the market to the source of the
productions. This phase happen throw channels they are called the distribution
channels. They are sets of interdependent organizations involved in making the
product available for consumption. Those interdependent organizations work as a
third party to supply the goods to the customers.
Consumption
The fourth step is consumption. Consumption
is one of the major concepts in economics. It is the process where the goods
are being used up or transferred to something new. The consumption of goods is
the amount of them that has been used during a time period. So consumption is
when the customer uses the goods and services that have an exchangeable value
which was distributed by the Production source to the markets.
Disposal
The fifth step is disposal. Disposal is
the final phase of the stuff story that happens after the good has been
consumed by the costumers. After disposal the waste that is lifted either being
dropped or burned which cause pollution in air, water and land. Which cause
health problems as well as it’s a major cause of the global warming that
threats the life as we know it. Because of the toxic chemicals that were
included in manufacturing these materials, when it’s burned it may produce some
toxic gasses that is moved to the air then to our lungs."The average
American discards 4.43 pounds of garbage everyday (EPA Facts and
Figures)".
Consumption in the UAE
Furthermore, here in the UAE people have
high standards of living and so they tend to spend a lot of money without
having second thoughts about the outcome which leads to negative consequences
to our planet, for example, people here have more than one car and its most
likely to be a big SUV truck which isn’t fuel efficient and also wasting energy
sources like keeping the light turned on in the house in rooms that are not
being used. Another example is buying a lot of products that don’t get used
properly like buying a new phone every time new phone is being sold out. These
factors harm our economy although we don’t get affected by it instantly in the
UAE but it will hit us hard, all these natural resources are being used until
it's all depleted, then we will only feel sorry.
Conclusion
Ultimately, from the information I
gathered from the video 'story of stuff' and other sources from the internet I
conclude that we the people living on this planet must take care of this planet
because it’s the only one we have. Energy sources are starting to finish and
more and more waste is being produced everyday around the world that the earth
will not be able to take care of itself from all these toxic materials
produced. Businesses only care about the profits and not always about the
consequences of destroying nature, governments are trying to limit this but we
still see negative effects from us on earth.
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