On: Five billion phones to be thrown away in 2022?

[thrown_22]

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?

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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 → permo-w]

> 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.

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you realise that you’re describing your own viewpoint as a comicbook understanding of the world?

[thrown_22 → permo-w]

So if you think that consigning millions to wade in heavy metal polluted ewaste for all time is acceptable lead the way.