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Apple Announces Renewable Energy and Forestland Initiatives in China

Sounds good. Now lets make another big step and set an example for paying livable wages - starting in the US. It is a crime for a company as profitable as Apple to be paying $12/hour to workers in LA. They should at a minimum pay 150% of the minimum wage and adjust it upwards for expensive cities.
 
Apple is just one company....

ok...so this is good for us Apple fans.... but that's only one small part of the world...

Apple is not super man, although Tim could easily be
 
Not to mention lifting millions out of poverty and creating markets for Western (including UK) goods.


Shaun said:
Apple could easily build their own factories and hold them to a higher standard, providing their employees with decent wages, heathcare, education and housing.

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The Chinese have a history of riding roughshod over their own people when there is money to be made from developments. Residents protesting against their homes being bullozed by illegal developments are routinely beaten and murdered by corrupt gangs who pay off the local police and government officials to look the other way.

China has one of the worst records for human rights abuses on the planet. The Chinese Communist government is a digusting and vile piece of ****. And we're proping them up. Allowing them to steal our jobs, allowing them to sell their goods in our countries while at the same they block our goods from selling in China, allowing them to undervalue their currency to help their exports, etc, etc.
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Green Apple? No.

I think Apple's commitment to 'going green' is mostly evidenced by the fact that they allow users to internally upgrade their range of products with the latest RAM, SSD, new battery etc. allowing the user to get a longer life span out of their premium products. That way, otherwise working products don't needlessly end up as landfill, due to forced redundancy, which is part of a larger business model. :rolleyes:
 
Shaun said:
They look after the environment better than they look after their employees in China, who are still little better than slave labour. Warped thinking IMO.
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Hasn't lugging around that wet blanket everywhere you go given you pneumonia yet?

What exactly are you doing to solve the problem? Have you stopped buying Apple products (or Samsung, Lenovo, Dell, X-box...)? Sitting on the sidelines and criticizing one company for not solving an entire nation's problems? Put your money where your mouth is. Apple has.
 
For every one forest Apple plants in China, the Chinese will cut down three.

They really don't care about the environment there, and their hardy people have adapted to living in a nasty, heavily polluted environment with little effects, so really this is just a PR stunt by Apple to do things the Chinese don't need.

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winston1236 said:
Higher prices = higher wages
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Not always. Higher wages could equal lower profit margins instead of higher prices.

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becneel said:
For every one forest Apple plants in China, the Chinese will cut down three.

They really don't care about the environment there, and their hardy people have adapted to living in a nasty, heavily polluted environment with little effects, so really this is just a PR stunt by Apple to do things the Chinese don't need.
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China is currently building one new coal power plant every one or two weeks. Planting a few trees is going to make no difference whatsoever.
 
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