Chapter 1: It talks about Industrial Revolution and how industrialists, designers, and engineers, did not see their designs to be part of a larger system outside of an economic one. The Industrial Revolution brought positive social changes such as technology advancement, communication, electricity, and increased productivity & agriculture. But they also discussed the flaws of some designs during the Industrial Revolution; according to cradle to grave, a lot of products go to waste as products became more and more advanced. Then it discusses further about products being crude, which means using the cheapest resources possible. End of the chapter, it goes on to talk about strategies to make the environment better and how to become more green and product efficient.
Chapter 2: Because our society is such a rapid growing population, Malthus warns about how people are not going to have enough resources to sustain themselves. It talks about not fixing the things but redesigning or recreating things in the environment. "Eco-effiency" is the way to go according to the four R's such as: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -- & Regulate.
Chapter 3: In this chapter, the main concept that I got was that products need to be continually used even if it is for different purposes. One quote that really stuck out to me was, "the key is not to make the human industries and systems smaller but to design them to make them bigger and better in a way that replenishes, restores, and nourishes the rest of the world."
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