RR06

So I found the first three chapters to be fairly interesting, but they do seem to be repeating themselves a lot. Granted each section is on a new "topic" the authors continue to drill this idea that what you consume, work around and generally promote big industry to build is bad for not only the environment but you yourself. Though, I'm sure his information is factual, I'm having trouble believing that all of the chemicals he says are in these products are active, and that by default some of them just have to be inert. More so in my honest opinion, the authors should live in a bubble separating themselves from this extremely destructive and harmful world that they have built up in these chapters. Despite changing topics they continue to more or less harp on their being a problem with the initial design, chapter after chapter. I did find his analysis on the industrial revolution to be interesting and his analogies to be very effective, but the terms he coins are a bit dramatic: products plus, cradle to grave production and intergenerational remote tyranny. His ideas on clean production and working like a tree are sensible but a tad on the unfeasible side at the time. On a side note as well, it just feels like he's trying to cram in as much as he can in as little space as possible, the reader can be a bit overwhelmed by his barrage of (sometimes supported/mostly anonymous) facts. I do agree with the statement he's saying but he could have organized it, loosened it up a bit. Also along those lines, his morbidity in thinking that the system is extremely bad, even when noting some positive change, he quickly re-quips that it's not enough, and that it's an all or nothing effort. I realize that he's playing the extremes for emphasis on his points but it's a tad on the heavy side. "If brute force isn't working, you're not using enough of it."??? For anyone to believe that companies, industries, the economy work like this seem to have quite a grudge against any who's thrown away simple trash. He is even against recycling efforts, again, I realize he's raising awareness with extremes, but he makes it seem as if this world is hopeless, and that we're doomed to asphyxiate from the same soot on our collars and cuffs or from the sporadic weather induced by global warming. Once I got past all of the soap box hollering I found his ideas to be very relevant to the new age and a necessity needing to be put into action as soon as possible. WE NEED TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, or at least the bastardized offspring of the 20th and 21st centuries which is so wasteful, negligent to hazards for cost improvements, and built to last long enough to keep consumer satisfaction with the brand or product.