Summary Of 'No Impact Man'

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Jared Brehm ENG 152 October 2, 2011 No impact Man Chapter 6- Epilogue Summary Chapter six starts off with Colin talking about how they have made it through the first two steps and how they are now about to start the third step. Colin also buys reusable dippers made of cotton for Isabella that will last them for a while, after he did some research and contacted an organization about reusable dippers. The family has gone three months into the project and they have made their one trip for the year up to Colin’s family’s house by train for Christmas. Colin feel the whole time that he is up there that by doing this project he has come to see the small things of peoples waste in the world every day. He uses the example of opening gifts on…show more content…
He takes a look at the idea of people’s happiness as our GDP as a country and how the higher class of society benefits from the growth of the economy at the expense of the planet suffering. Colin tells a story of how when Isabella was eight months old and how she became sick while they were in Italy on a family trip. He remembers of how his own brother passed away at eight months old and the thought of that passed through his mind while all of this was taking place. They take her to the hospital and they find that she was dehydrated and had an allergic reaction to soy bean. Also Colin talks about the idea that companies in the 1905’s came up with the idea of building products that were going to break down or make newer products quicker so that consumers would buy more products and be less satisfied with what they had with the previous items. Colin also proceeds to think that even recycled items such as toilet paper is not what it says it is and the family decides not to use it at all. His idea that the economy runs to heavily off materials and then we send those materials back to the earth is worst shape then we found makes him decide to look into recycled products and how they are after we have used them. Towards the end of the chapter Colin still feels that there are more things that they can do to get closer to zero emissions in their everyday…show more content…
So he stays around the house and realizes all the things that he could have now that the project is over, but that now he doesn’t want because of the system that he has been in for the last year. Colin takes the idea of the meaning of life and trees to show connections to what we are trying to progress at as a race and what that is doing to our planet. He also points out that the idea of new technology to try to convert our energy supplies over to more planet friendly ones may possess new problems, as well as take away from a life style we could live. He says that if we use technology to fixes our problems that new ones will arise and that people will still be unhappy and so will our planet. Finally Colin asks what we can do to make a difference for the better of our planet. Colin says that we all can make a difference, the people, and that we have to believe that we can actually do this and set or minds on the task
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