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Sad at the cynical comments here regarding Apple's environmental commitments. Does Apple have a tendency to exaggerate? Sure. But this is also the most ambitiou
by gdubs 3y ago
Sad at the cynical comments here regarding Apple's environmental commitments. Does Apple have a tendency to exaggerate? Sure. But this is also the most ambitious set of climate-related adaptations I've heard from a corporation at their scale, and it seems to be deeper than just marketing fluff.
How can we expect to change things if even meaningful moves to make improvements are automatically cynically dismissed?
- makeitdouble 3y agoPeople get burned by the "carbon neutral" bullshit that corporation heralded for so long (this time it's "high quality" credits...perhaps it's actually good, but who knows ? they're still showing forests). And aside from recycling, this whole effort was about "investing in renewable energy projects around the world", so another kind of throwing money at someone who might or might not do something with it. Won't matter to Apple's green message. Now recycling efforts are nothing to sneeze at and are commandable. Ambitious ? I don't know.
- Wingman4l7 3y agoFor anyone who works in electronics refurbishing or recycling, it rings extremely hollow as corporate greenwashing, because Apple devices are notoriously and increasingly hard to repair, and getting impossible to reuse due to software interlocks. The best way to be environmentally sound is to prevent the scrapping of already-manufactured devices, and Apple steadfastly stands in the way of this, because a robust used device market would hurt their profit margins.
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