Emphasis Preaching Journal

One of the most telling books about our wasteful American society is David Halberstam's study titled, The Reckoning. Our crisis is that we have permitted our industrial supremacy to slip away from us. That was not by accident. Back in the fifties we created the disposable society. We were so prosperous we could afford to create products with built-in obsolescence. Our manufacturers did not improve their products or the factories for making them. They could count on the American public to replace their disposable products with new ones.