The first video; the story of bottled water by Annie Leonard, discusses how what the author calls the manufactured demand pushes people to go for what they need and destroys what they require most. Annie in this video gives a story about the world being obsessed with stuff, a system in crisis. She asserts that humans are busy thrashing the planet and each other, and no one is happy about it. Efforts to understand the system are advantageous as they open up ways of resolving these problems. This video forces one to realize and think about what he or she is drinking, the cleanliness and freshness of bottle waters. Well what Annie puts across in this video is that individuals are not fully assured they are taking clean water; they do not have access to clean water. In my reflection, people got to know and think about the water they are about to intake, although it may look clean, it does not necessarily mean it is clean.
As Annie says most individuals have a conviction that bottle water is better than tap water; however that is not the case. The bottle water companies have manufacture demand for their products in a deceptive manner because no one would demand a less tasty, less sustainable and much more expensive product. Bottle water is less regulated than the tap water, thus these companies have to scare people from tap water, seduce them through advertising fantasies and misleading them. All the same, taste alone does not matter, the process through which the bottles are made are not environmentally friendly. There is a bigger problem with the disposal of these bottles after use, although companies say that these bottles are recyclable, majority of them are buried or incinerated with the remaining amount recycled. To a greater extent, these bottled water companies pollute the public water so that the people can buy their products. What people need to do is to bring these companies and their actions of manufacturing to an end, instead people should engage in campaigns to find real solutions. Legislations could be enacted to lock bottled waters from our cities, institutions and homes as part of ending the devastating effects of plastic.
In the second video on the great pacific garbage patch, Charles Moore brings forth the insidious devastation of the plastic pollutants. Moore presents a real eye opener in the great pacific garbage patch which is a colossal region of plastic pollutant fragment gathered by the natural swirling currents of the pacific. As presented by Moore, few individual have in their actions buried the plastic pollutants which we commonly see being washed from lands through streams, rivers to oceans in pits which is far from the water masses. Moore puts forth the results of his phenomenal study concerning the plastic garbage patches in the pacific and other ocean to open the eyes of the people to this up surging crisis. As he asserts patches of garbage in the seas and oceans have become a wake-up call to each individual who could see or hear the devastating effects of these pollutants on the marine ecology. The presence of plastic pollutants in the oceans has brought harm to marine life. Fish have consumed plastic, which ends up indigested, and in the extremes lead to deaths.
In some cases, dumped plastics have assumed to be corals, within the marine ecology, but since they are not natural; they are monomer combined to form plastic polymers, they decompose, leaking these toxic compound to the ecological system. In the bid to resolve this issue, people should be activated to learn and act prescriptively. Legislative solutions should be pursued and instituted all over the world, with campaign initiated to share information globally on the devastating effects of these plastic garbage patches.
Work cited
Annie Leonard. “The Story of Bottled Water.” Online video clip, Youtube. Youtube, 17 Mar. 2010. Web. 9 Sep. 2013.
Charles Moore. “TEDx Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Online video clip, Youtube. Youtube, 17 Dec. 2010. Web. 9 Sep. 2013.
