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Are you sure? The manufacture of phones and computers and all the technology required for them demands our destructive and polluting infrastructure. To make the
by vouaobrasil 3y ago
Are you sure? The manufacture of phones and computers and all the technology required for them demands our destructive and polluting infrastructure. To make these devices, mining and pollution is necessary (even if it is exported), so in my mind, eletronic devices is still an indirect cause. Just like a person is still responsible for pulling the trigger even if the bullet kills.
- jiggawatts 3y agoYou don't have to snuff mine tailing dust to use a phone.
- vouaobrasil 3y agoWe are all breathing a bit of dust, and we all contributed to that mining a little bit by buying phones...
- gruez 3y agoSo you're arguing that because phones contain cobalt, and that cobalt mining in africa causes cancer in the local population, that phones are the reason "Why are so many young people getting cancer"? That might be technically true in the sense that some of those miners are young and are getting cancer, but it's a tenuous argument to say the least.
- vouaobrasil 3y agoThat is not my argument at all: my argument is that phones represent a larger phenomenon of choosing to produce and use unsustainable products that incudes cobalt and many other types of mining, we choose time and again to pollute the earth with our actions that put a sufficient amount of pollution in the air and water to increase the rate of cancers. Phones are the prime example but they are just one of many similar actions by our society to choose short-term gains in exchange for poisoning ourselves.