I read an article today on Mashable that set out to demonize Apple because it said that Apple is not green, doesn't try to be green, and never will be green. It sounded off against the company's environmental sustainability attempts and said that a company who uses and abuses third world country's labor forces can never be sustainable in the environment if they cannot first be sustainable in human rights.
Although I agree to some degree with what the author is stating, I must say that I wonder why he is attacking only Apple. Isn't all of the manufacturers of our smart phones and other devices doing pretty much the same thing? I do not have hard figures for it but I would assume they would have to in order to compete with the giant.
I read a few comments from the article and I have to say that some of the arguments were pretty solid. One commenter said that using the GPS map feature of a phone to find a place instead of driving around, getting lost, and then finding the information somewhere, that user will save a lot of greenhouse emissions that would otherwise be lost into the atmosphere. I am not sure if those savings would offset the "harm" the phone has brought to the environment but it is a good argument.
Look, I realize that we live in a world that is faced paced and has a tremendous amount of technological devices that makes our world better. I am not one of those "Green Snobs" that thinks I am better than the rest because I have adopted a green lifestyle. I realize that there are some things we need to do in our world that might require adopting some things that might not be real green but the other things I do are good and I am proud that I have adopted those practices.
What say you?
