Cradle to Cradle Chapters 1-6
McDonough and Braungart really assert the value of nature in Cradle to Cradle. The book was interesting because it made so many references to historical figures and time periods. It did not seem like the information they based the book off of was simply theoretical of hypothetical. The whole premise of the book is that the Industrial Revolution started the pollution and destruction of the natural world.
In a way, the authors seemed very anti-big business and liberal to me. At times it seemed like they were criticizing capitalism in the free market economy. In Chapter 3 titled "Being Less Bad is No Good" seemed overly idealistic to me. I understand the problems that current designs of business and machineries, but I don't understand how we can fix all of it with just the snap of our fingers. We will have to make a gradual change because the current infrastructure cannot possibly be changed that quickly.
I liked what they had to say about nature and how we should respect it and how important it is to life. However, I thought some of their arguments were almost overly romanticized and would appeal more to the nature loving types rather than the average human being who just wants to make more money. Their ideas on ways to make products more eco-effective were really cool and I think that it is more of a proactive way to solve the issue.
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