Film Friday: Picturing Excess

Here is a speaker from the excellent TED conferences, held each year in Monterey. Photographer Chris Jordan explores the excesses of our modern lifestyle, including one-time use disposable plastic items. It's hard to imagine what two million plastic beverage bottles looks like -- the number used in the US every five minutes -- see Chris's image here, together with the plastic bags used by U.S. citizens every five seconds!

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