Planned Obsalescence - junk products

dewstru · Post by **dewstru** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:24 pm

So many products we buy, necessities or luxuries fall to bits soon after ,and many times before, their guarantee runs out. Capitalism has an interest in this of course, there's no luverly profit in decent, useful products built to last a lifetime or longer. Why don't so called green activists (like the CATS centre in north wales) promote more research into this obvious sustainability basic tenet?

dewstru · Post by **dewstru** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:19 pm

This, like most my posts, seems to have really grabbed everyone's imagination, so I thought I'd bump it and add ...wouldn't it be a 'green' policy for the government to extend the statutory replacement guarantee period for products to 2 or 3 years? any thoughts?

Disco_Destroyer · Post by **Disco_Destroyer** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:49 pm

[GVideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 6656656736[/GVideo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Stuff

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

dewstru · Post by **dewstru** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:52 pm

Thank you for that 'Disco_Destroyer' excellent! and thank you for once again correcting my input Anthony, I am breathing correctly aren't I, no too shill-like?

SHERITON HOTEL · Post by **SHERITON HOTEL** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:14 pm

Disco_Destroyer's link is just common sense, if you're not doing the right thing you're doing the wrong thing. The human animal act like sheep, if everyone is jumping off a cliff and one individual suggests 'er, this may not be such a good idea chaps' he gets branded a looney! We're all doomed!