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It is possible to use the word stuff in different ways to mean make different meaning. One of the formal meanings refers to whatever material makes up something. Informally it could also mean something that is not of considerable worth. The story of the stuff by Annie Leonard is composed in a video that is not more than twenty minutes. This video has reached out to millions of viewers across the continents. On the official website, the video is in more than ten different languages, ensuring an even wider audience. In the 2010, Annie released a book on the same title, which goes deeper into her theme of sustainable environmental management, through responsible resources use (The economist).
The central premise in the story by Annie is sustainable resources use. In the video, she says that we have too much stuff, where most of this stuff is toxic. She takes us through the chain of production, vividly explaining the dangers associated with it. According to Annie the chain of production, which people know, and trust that is safe but, it is not as safe as it is made to look like on paper. The system is linear, but the world is finite it, therefore, means it is a system in crisis, as it cannot run indefinitely without crushing us. At the current rates, we are using too much stuff that we can rejuvenate back to its original state (Simon & Schuster). The amount of natural resources (only two thirds are left) is shrinking by the day as more developments come up. Even though the USA makes up less the six percent of the world population, it contributes to more than thirty percent to the world’s waste generation. The United States use up more than forty percent of the world resources, and this is a truly alarming rate of resources depletion. She argues that people buy stuff that they do not need, then throwing them away because they think those stuff are obsolete. Then work harder to buy newer stuff that they do not even have time to enjoy. All of which, are at the expense of their health, social injustice and the environment (Simon & Schuster).
One of the rhetorical devices, which Annie has used largely in the video, is the story of the stuff. In the video, she talks about how the United States is using up too many resources at an alarming rate (Dailywritingtips). She creates the irony of how the people of the world would need an extra three to five planets, if all the people consumed at the same rate the United States were using the natural resources in the world. She uses this device further when she refers to the fact that the developed countries like the USA take upon themselves to use resources from other countries in the world, which are not doing well economically. In a statement, she talks about how USA uses up resources in the developing countries, because it is theirs but somehow on someone else’s land. To reduce the amount of pollution that the economy in the USA is exposing it...