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Monday, October 22nd, 2018

Smartphones Are Killing The Planet Faster Than Anyone Expected

Author:     MARK WILSON
Source:     Fast Company
Publication Date:     03.27.18
 Link: Smartphones Are Killing The Planet Faster Than Anyone Expected
Stephan:   When you design technology with no consideration but profit, the ecology of that technology is not even a factor. But ignoring its ecological impact does not make it go away. Take your mobile phone. American society and much of the rest of the world is organized on the wrong fundamentals, and this cannot continue. Climate change won't allow it.

Alexey_boldin/iStock (phone), Austin Chan/Unsplash (smoke), Annie Spratt/Unsplash (smoke), BravissimoS/iStock (smoke)

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