Video reflection B

An Inconvenient Truth

The video “An Inconvenient Truth” is a video that not just industrial designer should be watching, everyone living on Earth should be watching it. As we are all part of the world, and Industrial designer in particular, are people that must watch these video, because industrial designer are people who need to think ahead of other people, and design products that suits people’s need. However, after watching “An Inconvenient Truth” I got a few very important messages from it.

One of the messages I get from the video is that Earth is already at a stage of urgency, where human are destroying the world by having all the factory producing Carbon Dioxide and toxic Carbon Monoxide. And the global warming pollution creates an layer that thickens the Earth’s atmosphere, trapping the heat within Earth, hence fasten the melting down of South Pole and North Pole, which can ultimately lead to extinction of all living creature on Earth. Human do not own the Earth, but yet, what we are doing are destroying the Earth and threatening the entire living creatures on Earth.

Therefore, as industrial designers, we are also responsible for the Earth, industrial designers are not just people that make things beautiful anymore, and we also got to consider the Earth environment. While we are designing products, we should not be just considering the ecstatic part of design as major part, but we might take in consideration of the material choice, and the amount of material we use. Is the material suitable? Is there a better material? How much material is needed? Can we minimise the material needed? These are one of the first things we need to consider while designing products.

Also, since materials are limited on Earth, we should consider recycled material, using recycled material to reduce the amount of extracting needed. However, sometimes recycled material quality might be very poor, and industrial designer’s new challenge is to use the recycled material at its best performance. And the best solution would be able to make the product designed to be recyclable, or reusable.

We all live on Earth, and according to “An Inconvenient Truth” the pollution of the trend in the next 50 years appears to be very scary, and we would need to stop that from happening. And to do that, we need to stop the pollution, and one big problem with the pollution is designing, if we can figure out a way to solve this issue, it would only benefit the world.