Annie Leonard The Story Of Stuff Sparknotes

In the book, The Story of Stuff written by Annie Leonard, she mentions the major problems that the world faces environmentally, economically, and socially. Leonard incorporates past experience within the field of environmental science. Leonard concludes her research citing The Bridge at the End of the World, “ My conclusion, after much searching and considerable reluctance, is that most environmental deterioration is a result of systemic failures of the capitalism that we have today”. Annie Leonard is saying that, after researching reasonable causes for the deflation of the environment. She has concluded that the reason behind the downfall is a result of big private companies/ industries ran in countries like the United States of America.

Capitalism is a way of organizing an economy so that the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) are owned by individual people and companies rather than by the government (Capitalism). Leonard says that what individuals make and use as well as throw away of Stuff uncovers deep problems caused of the foundation of economic system of capitalism. Readers get to learn that capitalism is not sustainable. Leonard says that the United States is hesitant in bringing up the subject of being labeled “unpatriotic, unrealistic, or insane” (Leonard Annie). People are beginning to realize that capitalism is not morally right as what people believed. “ Michael Cohen, Lecturer in American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, says that’s because in other countries capitalism is seen as one option among many, whereas in the United States it’s considered an inevitability” (Leonard Annie). Leonard believes that improving capitalism is by pointing their flaws instead of ignoring the issue and allowing it to worsen economically, environmentally, and