Monday, December 17, 2007
The Story of Stuff
I received this link, Story of Stuff, from a fellow cloth diaper retailer in Canada, and I have to say, after watching it, and calling Scotian in from shoveling the driveway (we do NOT own a snow blower!) to watch it, it has certainly reminded me why we do not shop at box stores, why low prices are not always the answer (try telling this to certain bargain hunter members of my family!), and why shopping local makes good sense.
Later on in the day, I was catching up on my local weekend paper, and I read this passage, which only further drove home the concept of "Externalized Costs". This article, interviewing Rennie MacKenzie, a United Church Minister and former coal miner, on the release of his new book, Blast: Cape Breton Coal Mine Disasters, quoted him as saying, "But these conveniences are much more than a switch on the wall or a scuttle in the furnace. They had costs, and part of those costs were destroyed lives and broken families. I don't want anyone to forget that or to take it for granted."
Those externalized costs aren't just happening in developing nations, they were and are happening right in our own backyards.
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