Though it’s slightly too strident, I still strongly recommend you watch The Story of Stuff documentary.

… a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of our use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.

Watch it on the home page – StoryofStuff.com

If you don’t have time for the full 20min video, check just this 2min introduction:

Global warming gets all the media attention. (Though the green alarmist backlash is revving up.) This video looks at the REAL problem: that our economic model is not sustainable.

Thinking we can continue living as we are living is as stupid as assuming that your house value will continue to increase forever. We can’t. And it didn’t.

Perhaps our current recession will force people to consider Voluntary Simplicity. And sustainability.

I hope so. Or our species will be finished sooner rather than later.