Tim Minnshall

Every single thing you can see, unless it's a plant, a rock, another person or some other animal, has been manufactured. Once you start to think about it, it's almost overwhelming. Every single thing has a manufacturing story behind it.

Every single thing you can see, unless it's a plant, a rock, another person or some other animal, has been manufactured. Once you start to think about it, it's almost overwhelming. Every single thing has a manufacturing story behind it.

Every single thing you can see, unless it's a plant, a rock, another person or some other animal, has been manufactured. Once you start to think about it, it's almost overwhelming. Every single thing has a manufacturing story behind it.

It's so true, and this sounds like a silly thing to say, but just doing that little exercise of just pausing, looking around where you are now, and every single thing you can see, unless it's a plant, a rock, another person or some other animal, has been manufactured. And it sounds so obvious and so almost trite to say it, but it's really true.

It's so true, and this sounds like a silly thing to say, but just doing that little exercise of just pausing, looking around where you are now, and every single thing you can see, unless it's a plant, a rock, another person or some other animal, has been manufactured. And it sounds so obvious and so almost trite to say it, but it's really true.

It's so true, and this sounds like a silly thing to say, but just doing that little exercise of just pausing, looking around where you are now, and every single thing you can see, unless it's a plant, a rock, another person or some other animal, has been manufactured. And it sounds so obvious and so almost trite to say it, but it's really true.

And once you start to think about it, it's almost overwhelming that every single thing, unless it's a plant, a rock, another human or some other animal, has been made in a factory, someone, somewhere,

And once you start to think about it, it's almost overwhelming that every single thing, unless it's a plant, a rock, another human or some other animal, has been made in a factory, someone, somewhere,

And once you start to think about it, it's almost overwhelming that every single thing, unless it's a plant, a rock, another human or some other animal, has been made in a factory, someone, somewhere,

had to design that thing to choose the materials from which it would be made to get those materials to assemble them into components or subsystems and then assemble them into a bigger thing and then get it shipped to where it's needed and then get it delivered to where it's actually going to be used. All of that for every single object.

had to design that thing to choose the materials from which it would be made to get those materials to assemble them into components or subsystems and then assemble them into a bigger thing and then get it shipped to where it's needed and then get it delivered to where it's actually going to be used. All of that for every single object.

had to design that thing to choose the materials from which it would be made to get those materials to assemble them into components or subsystems and then assemble them into a bigger thing and then get it shipped to where it's needed and then get it delivered to where it's actually going to be used. All of that for every single object.

And I'm sitting here at my desk and, you know, everything, everything, the desk itself, the carpet on which it sits, the chair, the pen, the computer, the microphone I'm talking into now, every single thing has a manufacturing story behind it. But as you say, most of this is just invisible. We don't see it. We don't notice it. We just take it for granted.

And I'm sitting here at my desk and, you know, everything, everything, the desk itself, the carpet on which it sits, the chair, the pen, the computer, the microphone I'm talking into now, every single thing has a manufacturing story behind it. But as you say, most of this is just invisible. We don't see it. We don't notice it. We just take it for granted.

And I'm sitting here at my desk and, you know, everything, everything, the desk itself, the carpet on which it sits, the chair, the pen, the computer, the microphone I'm talking into now, every single thing has a manufacturing story behind it. But as you say, most of this is just invisible. We don't see it. We don't notice it. We just take it for granted.

That's right. And I think even for very, very simple things. So I like to use this example of toilet paper, right? That's a fairly mundane and simple product. But taking just a UK example, if I may. So the sheet of toilet paper doesn't seem very advanced or complex.

That's right. And I think even for very, very simple things. So I like to use this example of toilet paper, right? That's a fairly mundane and simple product. But taking just a UK example, if I may. So the sheet of toilet paper doesn't seem very advanced or complex.

That's right. And I think even for very, very simple things. So I like to use this example of toilet paper, right? That's a fairly mundane and simple product. But taking just a UK example, if I may. So the sheet of toilet paper doesn't seem very advanced or complex.

yet to make it requires trees grown up in Scandinavia and trees grown in South America because the properties of those different trees means that you have different properties of the wood pulp and so to make something as simple as a roll of toilet paper requires vast forests to be grown and it takes decades for them to grow

yet to make it requires trees grown up in Scandinavia and trees grown in South America because the properties of those different trees means that you have different properties of the wood pulp and so to make something as simple as a roll of toilet paper requires vast forests to be grown and it takes decades for them to grow