Philosophy, like debate, or courtroom drama, is simply the art of looking hard to find what supports your position, and ignoring anything that doesn't. It rules on social media, and might prove that britty isn't loonshit crazy.
Morris says $50 trillion must be invested by 2050 “to electrify infrastructure and engineer out the aspects of modern life that most significantly contribute to carbon emissions”.
A lot of that 50 trillion goes into very dirty mining.
Ground zero for consumption consciousness over battery metals would be the cobalt–Congo–China chain, but the billion iphone users in the world care whether their battery is going to run out before the next Star Wars meme loads, not who dug out the Co with bare hands.
These, of course, are the philosophers with their iphoneys.
Not sure about this contention, have you ever tried to come between a gen Z (and to be fair gen Y and X too) and his/her/their/zir’s phone? We’ll crawl over non-recycled broken glass for the next Tiktok, swim through deep sea tailings to Insta, climb leach heaps to become Youtubers and drink slurry to binge Netflix.
I go through the most elaborate hoops to keep the Internet working at the cottage. What mass depression we have when it futzes out.
Europe should ban anything nasty. They can just eat the snow of their ice age. :)
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