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It's worth thinking very carefully about your consumption habits re: how they produce waste. The real costs of our devices are often hidden in pretty horrifying
by kixiQu 4y ago
It's worth thinking very carefully about your consumption habits re: how they produce waste. The real costs of our devices are often hidden in pretty horrifying externalities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste
That said, even always upgrading to The Latest Thing can be done responsibly as long as you're making sure those old devices go to people who can get use out of them. Questionably useful gizmos are less great – I wanted a smart watch, got one, and regret it.
Hedonic treadmill is real, so keeping emotional distance from these things is useful.
- massysett 4y agoI always thought it would be interesting to see a calculator that takes a finished product and shows how many raw resources went into it. For example, put in a load of bread, and it shows how big of a wheat field it needed, how much oil to transport it to market, etc. Put in a cell phone and it shows how many minerals were mined. Showing labor hours would also be neat. Just a few examples for products across different sectors would be interesting.