I think it's crazy to think about the massive change and innovation that was taking place during the industrial revolution. The way so many products became so much cheaper, faster produced, and more available to the general public, is awesome to me. It seems like things these days take forever to get produced because all of the development and government restrictions they have to go through before getting put on the market. I would love to see what would happen if companies could be run like they were back then: fast paced, and no looking back. Much of the world as we know it would be completely different. The planet would definitely be more dirty and in trouble, but I would at least like to be able to see what it would be like.
From talk on the news and newspapers, we all know that our country isn't headed in the right direction. I never realized, though, that things were as bad as McDonough claims. From some of the claims in the book, it seems as if the country is headed downhill so fast, that it'll be completely destroyed within 100 years. I know our environmental situation is not good, but I wonder if it really is as bad as McDonough makes it seem, or if he's just making it seem like in order to get his point across.
At the beginning of chapter 3, McDonough talks about the "perfect book." He talks about how it is completely recyclable, and so much more versatile and useful than the conventional book. I thought he was talking about his book, but even the been we're reading can't make claims to being that "eco-friendly." This just helps get the point across on how tough it is to make new products exactly how we dream them up to be. We have thoughts of all this efficient and eco-friendly stuff, yet in most cases, we don't have the technology or now-how to make it yet.
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