
Feedback in nature is continual. Such elements as carbon, sulphur, and nitrogen are constantly being recycled. If you could trace the history of the carbon, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and water in you body, you would probably find that you are made up of bits of the Black Sea, extinct fish, eroded mountain ranges, and the exhalations of Jesus and Buddha. —Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins & L. Hunter Lovins
In the United States, the materials used by the metabolism of industry amount to more than twenty times every citizen's weight per day, more than one million pounds per American per year. —Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins & L. Hunter Lovins
How can we reduce the quantity of natural resources we consume and improve the quality of our lives?
Invisible Hands follows the flow of oil, through a terrain afflicted by the overwhelming production and consumption of superfluous goods. At the end of this viscous river, one finds in our invisible hands, a planet littered with petroleum by-products, the ubiquitous plastics our world is awash with.