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[[citation needed]] If you feel so strongly about phone waste feel free to go live in the third world as a e-waste recycler.

plzbo 4y ago
- thrown_22 4y ago
  I wasn't aware that the third world had a single race. Do you per chance also think that poor kids are just as smart as white kids like the current president? >It's on all of us to make a difference, however small. Great, so why aren't you an e-waste recycler?
  - permo-w 4y ago
    if you think there should be less crime and a better police force, you don’t go and fight crime on the streets, do you? in the same way, sure you can go off to Bangladesh to sort through e-waste, but the real issue is how our governments regulate industry saying “why don’t you go and be the batman of e-waste?” just poisons the debate and helps no one. throwaway accounts are for sensitive information, not so you can be rude to people you disagree with without damaging your credibility
    - thrown_22 4y ago
      > if you think there should be less crime and a better police force, you don’t go and fight crime on the streets, do you? Because I don't feel like beating up minorities like Batman does. But hey, a comic book understanding of the world is precisely what's required to think that we could solve environmental problems by recycling. Which is why industry invented it in the first place.
      - permo-w 4y ago
        you realise that you’re describing your own viewpoint as a comicbook understanding of the world?
        thrown_22 4y ago
        So if you think that consigning millions to wade in heavy metal polluted ewaste for all time is acceptable lead the way.
- permo-w 4y ago
  it may well be racist or more likely overly western-centric, but it’s mostly just not helpful to talk like that. besides, these issues aren’t solved by well-meaning volunteers in developing nations, they’re solved by government action on a macro scale
- arcanemachiner 4y ago
  There's a reason that developing countries end up recycling e-waste, and crying racism does nothing to change that.
alvarezbjm-hn 4y ago
What you are stating implies that environmental responsibility is non existent and that everybody is entitled to consume all the resources his/their money can afford.
- thrown_22 4y ago
  What you are stating implies that phones are the only resource people consume.

plzbo 4y ago

thrown_22 4y ago
I wasn't aware that the third world had a single race. Do you per chance also think that poor kids are just as smart as white kids like the current president? >It's on all of us to make a difference, however small. Great, so why aren't you an e-waste recycler?
- permo-w 4y ago
  if you think there should be less crime and a better police force, you don’t go and fight crime on the streets, do you? in the same way, sure you can go off to Bangladesh to sort through e-waste, but the real issue is how our governments regulate industry saying “why don’t you go and be the batman of e-waste?” just poisons the debate and helps no one. throwaway accounts are for sensitive information, not so you can be rude to people you disagree with without damaging your credibility
  - thrown_22 4y ago
    > if you think there should be less crime and a better police force, you don’t go and fight crime on the streets, do you? Because I don't feel like beating up minorities like Batman does. But hey, a comic book understanding of the world is precisely what's required to think that we could solve environmental problems by recycling. Which is why industry invented it in the first place.
    - permo-w 4y ago
      you realise that you’re describing your own viewpoint as a comicbook understanding of the world?
      - thrown_22 4y ago
        So if you think that consigning millions to wade in heavy metal polluted ewaste for all time is acceptable lead the way.
permo-w 4y ago
it may well be racist or more likely overly western-centric, but it’s mostly just not helpful to talk like that. besides, these issues aren’t solved by well-meaning volunteers in developing nations, they’re solved by government action on a macro scale
arcanemachiner 4y ago
There's a reason that developing countries end up recycling e-waste, and crying racism does nothing to change that.

alvarezbjm-hn 4y ago

What you are stating implies that environmental responsibility is non existent and that everybody is entitled to consume all the resources his/their money can afford.

thrown_22 4y ago
What you are stating implies that phones are the only resource people consume.