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That’s like throwing 800 laptops away per second (The World Counts) Tech companies sold a total of 13bn smartphones between 2010 and 2019. Only about 3 billion are in use today. This means 10 billion smartphones (which contain valuable hardware) were just thrown away (Data source: Stastista.com). That’s a huge amount of natural resource extraction…
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“Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side…” – E.F. Schumacher, 1973, ‘Small is Beautiful: Economics as if people mattered.’
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Tunnel vision on net zero emissions ignores, or even increases the rate of material throughput and thus natural resource extraction. For a couple of reasons. Capitalism’s internal logic is to accumulate involving expropriation; to create surplus and thus to seek out new ways to extract. Jevon’s Paradox is the idea that more energy efficient production
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Livestock make up 62% versus just 4% for wild animals, of the biomass of mammals on Earth. Humans account for 34% (Our World in Data). 80% of the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest is to make room for cattle farming. We have commodified animals, nature and turned our earth into factory farms. Adding to the
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