How are electronic goods connected to child slavery and killing of endangered animals?
September 23, 2009 - 9:20 pm
It mostly occurs when the stuff gets disposed of in an environmentally friendly way which basically means that it gets shipped to china, disassembled by small children, and dumped in toxic waste pits.
September 24th, 2009 at 2:45 am
Robots use child slavery to produce more robots and they hunt polar bear flesh to sustain their armies
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September 24th, 2009 at 3:28 am
I learnt this in class one time and it’s called e-waste. Some richer nation’s companies dump their electronic garbage to the poorer countries who get paid for being a dump site basically.
E-waste basically has heavy metals, mercury, acids etc etc (bad chemicals) which seeps into the ground and kills off plants. So some animals can’t eat… but they also can get poisoned themselves too.
I’m not sure about the slavery part, but as for kids, well, in poorer countries some of them go fishing through the dump for things they need or that they can sell and make a living. Sometimes they are made to separate stuff into piles so that outside sources can recycle them… but in the end the still rifle through all the crap =health problems.
Maybe the slavery idea comes from electronic sweatshops?
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September 24th, 2009 at 4:16 am
I would theorize that some countries that lack civil liberties that also make electronic goods enslave children to do various types of work and while making the electronics, the company may pollute the local environment, which could harm animals, endangered and not-endangered.
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September 24th, 2009 at 4:21 am
It mostly occurs when the stuff gets disposed of in an environmentally friendly way which basically means that it gets shipped to china, disassembled by small children, and dumped in toxic waste pits.
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