I came across this NY Times article which covered a video that is “about the effects of human consumption.” Well, more accurately it reflects the negatives of human consumption.

The video was created by Annie Leonard, a former Greenpeace employee and an independent lecturer who paints a picture of how American habits result in forests being felled, mountaintops being destroyed, water being polluted and people and animals being poisoned.
Apparently the video quickly spread among teachers who,

recommended it to one another as a brief, provocative way of drawing students into …