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If the product is 100% carbon neutral then selling multiple copies of that products would have no impact either. This means that planned obsolescence and being

• openfuture 6y ago
  That is a huge(!) leap. 'Carbon neutral' does not mean 'no side-effects' it means literally 'carbon neutral' of course there is pollution from the churn of obsoleting devices left and right. Can we not keep repeating this myopic 'the only problem is X' and then creating a bunch of new problems from not accounting for externalities. I am reminded of the great horse-shit meeting of europe that ended with no solution and then the car came along and everyone was 'yay no more pollution' because for them 'pollution' was horse shit, not exhaust fumes.
• Teever 6y ago
  What about the ecological disruption involved in mining all of the material for those multiple products? Being carbon neutral isn't sufficient to undo the damage that we have done. We need to become carbon negative.
• dwaltrip 6y ago
  The environment is composed of more than CO2 levels.