I had my Apple Watch 4 almost since the day it was released in September 2018 until about 3 weeks ago. That's 6.5 years. I elected to swap it for recycling because I still have a Watch 6 and I was buying an Ultra 2. I was swapping back and forth between the 4 and the 6 for years, and the 4's battery was starting to last only about 12 hours.
I'm not so sure I've had any REGULAR watch last that long.
He has doubts that carbon neutral is really a thing. Kind of like having vaccines that didn't prevent the thing they were SUPPOSED to prevent.
Oh, and if you're going to criticize somebody for having any "level of stupid", you should make an effort to get spelling and detail correct. It's "RFK Jr." who is our secretary of Health and Human Services. Not "RKF"; that would be a different person entirely.
Henry VI, part II. Thank you for the background. I've read Hamlet and The Tempest, so I didn't get that reference. I learn something new every day, it seems!
Un-repairable, yes. But my Watch 4 lasted 6.5 years. So that's not too shabby, especially since pretty much no "regular" watch will last me for much longer than the factory battery anyhow.
We don't even need to force companies to LIMIT pollution. Just have them PUBLISH the oil used, electricity used, and types+amount of pollution emitted to make your new device. Kind of like how almost every food needs to tell you the calories of fat and sugar, plus the sodium, color dyes, ingredients, and other things in that food.
Publish it. If the people care about pollution or natural resources/rare-earth metals used, then they will make their decisions accordingly. If they don't care, then that too will become obvious over time.
Yes and no.
Yes, you can reduce your own personal DIRECT carbon usage by not buying things. But SOCIETY will still use natural resources and expel carbon in its support for you as a member of that society.
For example: You don't own a watch, phone, or even a car. You take the bus everywhere. Let's say the bus is electric and runs off of free Flatulent Unicorn Gas. Unicorns fart; it's a fact of unicorn life. So we bottled that and burn it in your morning and afternoon bus.
Well, the bus still had to be manufactured. It might have costed 2-4 barrels of oil to make your bus, plus some hours of electricity. And then there's the delivery costs to get that bus from its factory in Bowling Green, OH (or wherever it is that they make Unicorn busses) to the paint factory where they painted it with all the unicorn imagery...and then to ship that bus to your city.
And now that the bus in in service, diligently making its unicorn rounds every day for you and your neighbors, the REST of the road system still needs to operate correctly for that unicorn bus to get to you in the morning and to pick you up from work in the afternoon.
Roads are made of oil (basically), traffic lights need electricity and microprocessors. Early-morning bus routes require the street lights to work. More electricity and microprocessors, and maybe even a special chip called a photocell to tell that street light to stay off while the sun is up. And all that wiring they put in the road beds, or the WIFI cameras they're using to manage the traffic signals.
My point is that NOTHING, not your Apple Watch nor the street light in front of your house, is a thing all by itself. Everything is part of a bigger SYSTEM.
You can reduce your own carbon footprint, but only by a certain amount, after which, you have reached a minimum baseline. Even the Amish still generate a minimum baseline, just because they too are humans, and sometimes their horse-drawn carriages slow down traffic.
And don't get me started on the carbon footprint of a horse and carriage; your rickety old Toyota might be less pollutive!