> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: [[Glenn Adamson]] > Reference:: http://timesensitive.fm/episode/glenn-adamson-on-craft-as-a-reflection-of-ourselves/ > Date:: 2022 > Tags:: #warp/podcast > WeftLinks:: [[Environmental value of craft]] > Claim:: > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Craft will not replace mass-produced goods, but change the way we value them. ### Highlights despite what a lot of people would love to believe, craft is actually not very sustainable in the sense of preventing climate change, or offering an option that would circumvent the negative impact of manufacturing on the planet, for reasons that are similar to the question of economic efficiency. It’s, generally speaking, not a very efficient use of resources, either. If you think about it for a second, which is more efficient per unit, the country pottery up in [Vermont](https://www.vermont.gov/#gsc.tab=0) with its own kiln and all the shipping problems they’re going to face, or [Ikea](https://www.ikea.com/us/en/), or another mass manufacturer, who’s pumping millions of plates out in this hyper-optimized system? The easy answer—which you’d love to be able to give—is that craft is just good for the planet. That is, in most cases, actually not true. So you have to think psychologically, and think maybe even spiritually. You have to think that craft is a means of connecting to things that actually matter, rather than things that just appear for the moment to matter, which, again, takes a kind of learning to appreciate and understand, perhaps, both for makers and for users. That really was the point of that book, *Fewer, Better Things*. Even the title kind of says it: Worry about fewer things, and worry more about them. Maybe “worry” is the wrong word. *Attend* to them.