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>However negligible the contribution to global CO₂ concentrations these 100-odd ships over the last couple of quarters have made, they still made it, and it was
by moistgorilla 11y ago
>However negligible the contribution to global CO₂ concentrations these 100-odd ships over the last couple of quarters have made, they still made it, and it was done to the world I have to live in without consulting anyone or anything but their owner's own bottom line.
You are consulted every time you purchase something created via the global economy. We had our chance to say something and we said "We want iphones"
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- rosser 11y agoConsenting to the fact of global shipping does not imply consenting to radically less efficient shipping, just because it happens, through a fluke of market pricing, to be cheaper. One does not follow from the other.
- aninhumer 11y agoIt's completely unreasonable to expect consumers to research the entire supply chains of everything they purchase in order to factor in all their social costs.
- vacri 11y agoIt's pretty bloody obvious where iPhones physically come from. And it's hardly a secret that western democracies have had their manufacturing bases implode because consumers prefer cheaper to local; few consumer-targeted things are built in the west these days.
- piceas 11y agoIt would be awesome if someone did it on their behalf though. I would love a metric that let me evaluate the energy, water, pesticide, units of child labour needed to get a product to the store/my door just as I can compare the fat and sugar content of my lunch or the efficiency of a new car if I were to tape all the sharp edges and drive carefully.