The Joy of Garbage Response:

I always thought the little things count and will help because the little things we do will grow into something big. However, it seemed like Perkins didn't think so. She didn't think taking your reusable bag doesn't touch the larger economic and political structure. I think Anything we do helps! I wasn't sure whether to believe her or not because she had no credible evidence when she mentions how much each person throws away a year. She said 1600 pounds a year and Humes said 102 tons a year. I like how she did her own experiment and had her students go out and ask another generation but I feel like she needed to give more examples because she only gave us the older generation. She used a lot of pathos and logos in the video she uploaded. The video gave me an easy and better understanding of the whole picture. When she mentions the breast milk that made me gasp because the toxins are in the mother which then carries on to the newborns and that is just disgusting. I thought it was funny when she had the Government polish the cooperations shoes. It showed that they owned us because they're bigger than us. It's true we always by the new big thing to switch out our old stuff. That is due to the media they brain wash us; it accumulates to what we already have. I think the idea of spending is going down because now all everyone thinks about now is save save save! Jobs are tough to find and money is on a tight budget right now and people are either not spending much or going for the cheap stuff. So with our economic crisis I think we will start throwing less trash away than we use to.