The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) DVDRip XviD MP3-MVGroup
English | 00:52:52 | XviD | 704x400 | 25.00fps 1854 Kbps | MP3 128 Kbps 48.0khz | 701MB
Genre: Documentary
Planned Obsolescence is the deliberate reduction of product life spans to warrant consumer demand. As a magazine by reason of advertisers succinctly puts it: “The thing that refuses to wear out is a play of business “ - and a tragedy as far as concerns the modern growth society which relies forward an ever-accelerating cycle of work, consumption and throwing away.THE LIGHT BULB CONSPIRACY combines investigative scrutiny and rare archive footage to sketch the untold story of Planned Obsolescence, from its beginnings in the 1920s through a secret cartel, set up expressly to confine the life span of light bulbs, to donative-day stories involving cutting edge electronics (of that kind as the iPod) and the enlarging spirit of resistance amongst ordinary consumers.This film travels to France, Germany, Spain and the US to observe witnesses of a business practice that has become the basis of the modern economy, and brings back disquieting pictures from Africa whither discarded electronics are piling up in elephantine cemeteries for electronic waste.Economists and environmentalists convinced that the growth society as we apprehend it is unsustainable in the protracted run and that Planned Obsolescence of necessity to become a thing of the after , as it is impossible to mingle the limitless consumption of resources through a finite planet. But what are the alternatives? The thin skin offers thought-provoking analysis by thinkers operating on ways of saving both the regulation and the environment, and presents hands-~ward stories showing entrepreneurs putting new affair models into practice.
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