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  • Greenpeace slams Apple supplier Foxconn over inadequate carbon reduction effort

    Oh yeah forgot to add above it's the USA that has walked away or torn up several world climate accords. Basically the only country to do so. 

    Also since EU now has stopped cheap Russian gas it is now going back to  oil, coal or thinking hard about it. Shipping LNG from USA by carbon burning ships isn't exactly carbon effective either. 

    watto_cobra
  • Greenpeace slams Apple supplier Foxconn over inadequate carbon reduction effort

    Chinas cumulative carbon emissions, i.e total amount accumulated in atmosphere, is about 250 billion tonnes. The USA is about 500 billion tonnes.

    Numbers are from  sites like Carbon Brief, Our World Data etc.

    Almost one quarter of all carbon in air up to date since industrialization is put out by USA.

    Our World Data 2019:
     "  the United States has emitted more CO2 than any other country to date: at around 400 billion tonnes since 1751, it is responsible for 25% of historical emissions; this is twice more than China – "

    The EU is about 300 billion tonnes.
    India is about 50 billion tonnes. 

    Adjusted for population, USA has produced something like 9 times more carbon than China.

    You can see the shocking charts (that contradict the common narrative blaming China etc) in Our World Data etc. 

    Some people then blame China India for their 'too big populations'. Then why doesn't USA compare itself to say Singapore  with 7 million population or Brunei ?
    muthuk_vanalingam
  • Seven Apple suppliers linked to Chinese forced labor programs

    here we go again: Iraq is has stockpile of WMD playbook..

    Here read this: 

    https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/30/xinjiang-forced-labor-china-uyghur/
    GeorgeBMac
  • Foxconn iPhone plant at Zhenghzou reopens with 10% of workforce

    @ SIROZHA Who in the world said that Apple had 'responsibility of Apple or its shareholders to provide jobs'? I'm saying your idea of "Apple should save the Chinese worker by using robots' lacks logic. Your argument is being unemployed is better than work? (And like I said Foxconn jobs are better than almost anywhere else they can get). That sounds just like xenophobia masquerading as concern. You mention slavery but you seemingly have no idea what that means. Slavery means 'no choice, by force'. Foxconn workers aren't forced to work there. Like I said some travel for hundreds of miles to work at Foxconn factories, they line up for days to get an interview. Equating that with slavery is ludicrous.
    muthuk_vanalingamGG1
  • Foxconn iPhone plant at Zhenghzou reopens with 10% of workforce

    sirozha said:
     Apple doesn’t want to invest a couple hundred billion dollars in building real robots that can assemble iPhones. 

    so replacing people's jobs with robots is the great solution ?
    Apple providing jobs is why you don't want to buy Apple products or invest in aapl ?

    Workers travel across the country to work at Foxconn. The wages there are way higher than what they could get at other jobs. Some according to reports earn 10 times their parents incomes.

    (I belief in diversifying manufacturing and supply. But too often people's criticism of Apple's China operations is xenophobic racism masquerading as 'concern'. )
    seanjmuthuk_vanalingam