Source: Arte
"In Western countries, the plague cons of low-end products that must be replaced constantly. While in Ghana, one exasperated of computer waste in containers that arrive. This aberrant growth pattern that grows produce and throw even more did not start yesterday. By the 1920s, a formidable concept was developed: planned obsolescence. " A product that does not wear is a tragedy for business, "read one in 1928 in a journal. Gradually, the engineers were forced to create products that wear out more quickly to increase consumer demand.
Growth mad
"At the time, sustainability was not a major concern," Warner recalls Phillips, great-grand-son of the founders of the brand of the same name. But while the planet's resources are exhausted, nothing has changed. "The logic is growing to grow," said Serge Latouche, emeritus professor of economics at the University of Paris 11. Tour in France, Germany, Spain, Ghana and the United States, fed by numerous archives and interviews with, for guiding the test of a recalcitrant printer, this proof carefully uncovers the avatars of planned obsolescence and their implications. It also outlines other models: the decay advocated by Serge Latouche, an industry that produces and infinitely recyclable, just like nature. A fascinating investigation, who, exasperated once passed, start thinking. "
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