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Apple's unrealized consequences - Coggle Diagram
Apple's unrealized consequences
Efforts to be Sustainable
Apple has made efforts to show their commitment to sustainability.
Carbon -neutral products :
Clean energy in their supply chain
Most efforts seem to be performative
Efforts focus on impacts that affect US
Distracts consumers from their real consequences
Rare Earth Elements
Apple's supply chain shields them from criticism
Some REEs always harm environment no matter
Apple ignores their supply chain's unmeasureable issues:
They knew of child labor for years and only shut it down from public pressure
They focus on clean energy, but not actual issues
Tech industry needs REEs
controlled by few, leading to bloodshed and conflict
Apple makes insane margins, of which they hold on to, and choose to exploit
Impacts local communities
E-WASTE
Underfocused issue
Public cares about clean energy and emissions, not waste
Apple and others shift blame to consumers
"its your duty to recycle our phones"
Apple's response has been performative
Robot - recycles 200 phones per hour, Apple unveiled one and then did nothing else
More gold in E-waste than Gold Ore
Apple designs with obsolescense
Making all other climate issues much worse
Vast Consequences - hurting water, to communities
We all contribute in someway, so we must know about this