So I watched the "Story of Electronics" video where Annie Leonard gives a presentation about the electronics companies bad attitude towards creating more renewable products.
I'm not really one that cares to much about the environment and usually I don't pay much attention to all the doomsday messages the newspapers print out all the time, such as "We are destroying our planet!" and "We don't have much time!". I feel it's abit exaggerated at the moment, what with global warming and all. Then again, she may have some valid points.
Of course companies will do their best to make the product cost-efficient, and sadly today that means making the products somewhere else then their own country. The fact is that the wages are much less and the workforce is huge and eager to get a job, where as in our more modern countries there are more appealing jobs and the mentality of many is that those kinds of jobs, (in this case jobs like just regular assembling) is beneath them.
So on one hand, i can understand the companies, but on the other, they have the power to change their way of making products if they feel like it, as said in the video.
I agree with Annie that some products today might not be built to last, but to say that the companies knowingly make the products more keen to break, I think is just untrue.
I also think that with this fast evolvement of modern electronics we have to get used to them becoming obsolete quite fast but we can of course push for a more long-lasting development of new products, because i believe that sometime we will reach some sort of holdoff of the potential for electronics development in general.
Hi pedaN!
SvaraRaderaI am like you, I dont pay that much attention to the pollution of the planet, and as you say I understand why the companies are assembling their produts in third world countries instead of their home countries.
Also as you said, the companies have the power to change, but they do not feel a need to it when the consumers are still happily buying their products. We need to make a stand first.
Regards David Glennberg
Hi pedaN!
SvaraRaderaI’m actually not an environmentalist and I don't pay that much attention to the global warming as well. Though I believe that it is an important issue we all need to be part of for the futre of our planet.
I agree with you why companies make their products in other countries. It’s way much cheaper! But it is really bad for the environment because of all the shipping costs and pollution that comes from it. And we need to act in some way. How I don’t know? But we need to make the big companies understand that we have to take care of our future, our planet.
Best regards David T.