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Richard Maxwell. How Green is Your Smartphone?
CONTENTS
Guide
Pages
Digital Futures Series
How Green is Your Smartphone?
INTRODUCTION
The Book You Hold in Your Hands
Outsmart Your Smartphone
The Greenest Smartphone is the One You Already Own
Calling Bullshit on Anti-Science Propaganda
ONE Outsmart Your Smartphone
The Allure
Are We Addicted?
Distracted in Traffic
What? I Wasn’t Paying Attention
Buzzing Through Us and Messing with Our Natural Vibe
The Cancer Question
5G and the Internet of Things – The Smog of Radiation
Precautionary Principle
TWO The Greenest Smartphone is the One You Already Own
Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions
The Labor Process Part 1:Mining Hazards and Conflict Minerals
The Labor Process Part 2: Manufacturing and Assembly
The Labor Process Part 3: The Business Model
The Labor Process Part 4: Our Global E-Waste Problem
THREE Calling Bullshit on Anti-Science Propaganda
Forewarned, Forearmed
War-Gaming Science
Shareholder Activism
CONCLUSION What Next? End Dependence
Break the Bonds of the Supply Chain: The Idea of the Fairphone
Imbue Supply Chains with Compassion – 164 Years Later
Optimism of the Intelligence, Optimism of the Will
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How Green Is Your Smartphone? is informed by the logic and research of climate and environmental science and political-economic and ethnographic social science, the ethical and political commitments of environmental movements, and young activists’ zero tolerance for the status quo as they seek new economic arrangements and green environments for work, rest, and play.
We’ve been teaching about these issues in several countries for over a decade, and have not always found it easy to narrow the gap between scientific and public knowledge, especially when questioning cellphones. They have become part of people’s very senses of self. Hence a polemical volume that takes a side in this elemental struggle, at the same time as it strives to communicate the current state of academic agreement and disagreement, alongside the work of governments, activists, and the media.
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