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yUNIVERSIDAD DE SAN CARLOS DE GUATEMALA
ESCUELA DE APRENDIZAJE DE LENGUAS “CALUSAC”
COURSE: PRETOEFL III
TEACHER: JULIA FLORES

“ESSAY ABOUT THE STORY OF STUFF”

NAME: Julio Cèsar Pèrez Pèrez ID: 2508994 DATE: 06 / 04 / 2011 Story Of Stuff We have to take care of the world that we are live in, this is a world whit limits, limits that are destroying the natural resources of the world, the video about the story of stuff shows a system that works around the world, system called “The materials economy” this is a lineal system but a system in CRISIS, this system provides the way to know how stuffs are made, and how the creation of this stuffs are destroying our planet. The corporations use money and the power that they have to make things to make money or win money and using that with the purpose to destroy our world but that things are the things that people don’t see, and people gets involved in this system just buying the stuffs that the corporations are creating around the world. Is very important to mention the form of this lineal system to see how stuffs are created and to show how this system is destroying the planet. First of all is the extraction of natural resources around the world are destroying the natural resources of the world like water, trees, mountains, etc, people get involved in the country, people gets involved working for corporation to grave this resources in most cases for the use of foreign corporations that destroys the third world just with the purpose to make people to buy stuffs. Then after the extraction of resources this resources pass to production, materials goes to industries to make products with the resources found in this stage

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