The planned obsolescence profit model is long since affordable. New extended producer-responsibility with increased taxes and prosecution of offenders must better connect products and services to the environmental and health costs inflicted. The answer isn’t to resist change or hide the fallout of our choices, the answer is more personal responsibility and wiser resource utilization. Apps may be free, but our bits and bytes are anything but.
What we don’t see — because it is so carefully hidden from the public eye — is the ecological impact of our social media usage and the wasteful consumption loop we’re trapped in, as we’re pushed to constantly upgrade our devices and turn simple electronics and appliances into “smart” machines. *This episode originally aired on November 13, 2020. Here is a direct audio link.
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