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Manufacturing 1 PC Takes 1.8 Tons Of Raw Material
remy writes "Although most of it (1.5 metric tons) is water, a study from the United Nations University details the raw materials used in the manufacture of a PC and 17" CRT. That's an incredible environmental cost per PC, and a very strong argument for trying to leverage older equipment, not to mention upgrading rather than replacing."
Good idea. Raise the price of everything.
That will really make it easier for us to compete with India for jobs.
So when is the UN going to start limiting computer manufacturing and usage?
Since when does the UN give a flying fuck about environmental concerns?
If that had been modded funny it would be closer to the truth.
No Comment.
Since when do we give a flying f**k about the U.N.s concerns?
Keep the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
This is called "The Green Tax Shift". It seeks to re-internalize (to Capitalism) the very real Costs of Pollution. (which the Capitalists presently externalize on the commons, communities and government coffers)
Unfettered Capitalism is a death sentance for us all, Free Trade is a joke. The economy exists in a regulatory framework, it is supposed to satisfy public needs. The corrupt US Government presently writes law to benefit ONLY the profit-takers (see the DMCA as proof. This crowd is hyper-aware of its purpose/use/cause and effect). THERE IS NO DEBATE ON THIS ISSUE. The US government is bought and paid for. Anyone who says otherwise is out of his mind. The question now is, What will YOU do about it?
Fair Trade subscribes an inclusion of these (and other (like international labour, safety and wage rights)) considerations.
Fair Trade advocates are not morons, besides what CNN would like to tell you, these people (myself included) are not self-destructive cranks. The question is simple, at what price are we really enjoying this 'affluent society', when all the *REAL* costs are included you discover were getting a very raw deal indeed. So long as International Plutocrats write our "Trade" agreements, you'll see that they will CONTINUE to make pollution free. Continue to make death-sentance wages in sweatshops tolerable. Continue to stay out of the way of prosecution of any kind for their anti-social and destructive ways (say, Ford's proxy killing of labour organizer Cleto Nigmo in Mexico in 1990?)
So if the reset of the world is constantly pushing resolutions tantamount to jumping off a bridge the veto power should not be used? Thank goodness that sane 5% is around.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
So before these people have jobs and can afford such amenities as a sanitation system, we should tell them they can't have jobs?
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Just like a robot to think that their way is the only way, and there's no other possible way than their way, because its the only way thats right. Let me make sure I get this right: Globalization is the only way to provide 3rd world countries with jobs and fresh water, right?
Maybe, just maybe, those people would be quite happy living their lives the way they want to, without having a 'system' forced down their throats just so that MegaCorp, Inc. can feel good paying for its roads and water-diversion projects with money they've raped from other cultures and societies 'grateful' to have had their water stolen from them
Imperialist Pig-dog Anonymous Coward!
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Yep, mod me down as troll. Fear the truth you gutless, no-integrity wonders?