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The Cost of Cool: Youth Consumption and the Environment
Title
The Cost of Cool: Youth Consumption and the Environment
Publication
The Video Project, 2001.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (35 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Title from title frames.
Film
Originally produced by The Video Project in 2001.
In English
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
The Cost of Cool: Youth Consumption and the Environment features teenagers discussing what it takes to be "cool", the pressures of consumerism, and the environmental price we pay to have the latest, "coolest" stuff. The video begins with an examination of the growth of the world's population and the impact of our consumption habits on the earth's resources. The Cost of Cool looks at everyday items from t-shirts to sneakers and tracks the effect of their manufacture on the world's resources. "If every person alive today lived like we do," says host Alexandra Paul, "we would need three Earths to provide the resources." Teenagers grapple with their learned buying patterns, and question whether they actually need much of the stuff that they feel they must acquire to be happy and live well..
Variant and related titles
Kanopy Base.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 31, 2023
Publisher's number
1172876 Kanopy
Genre/Form
Documentary films
Also listed under
Kanopy (Firm)
The Video Project (Firm),
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