It's a good start, but Apple (and all the others) need to step-up and do more. Cause global warming can't be denied.
(...) 150 years of industrialised civilisation in 64 billion years of a planet's history is hardly a relevant factor.
The air might be dirty, but the planet has been hotter and cooler in the past, far before the advent of mankind. Very little we can do will interfere with a planets natural evolution and the reaction cycle of its nearest star. (...)
Sheeeeeeet, dude. you might recheck that.150 years of industrialised civilisation in 64 billion years of a planet's history is hardly a relevant factor.
No, climate shift cannot be denied, it has happened throughout the history of the planet (the term global warming is naive and misleading) - however man made global warm is far from being proven. 150 years of industrialised civilisation in 64 billion years of a planet's history is hardly a relevant factor.
The air might be dirty, but the planet has been hotter and cooler in the past, far before the advent of mankind. Very little we can do will interfere with a planets natural evolution and the reaction cycle of its nearest star.
Apple and other companies are doing what they can in an affordable and progressive manner - no more packaging/reduced packaging or user manuals, machines made from recycled/recyclable components and materials using less harmful chemicals than before and requiring less electricity to run.
I don't think the computer industry rates as a major player in world pollution.
Let's see an end to the use of fossil fuels - the only thing that will make a significant difference in man made pollution levels.
We know what pollutant gasses we produce (methane being the worst), we know the quantities were producing (record CO2 pollution this year, exceeding even worst-case predictions), we know these gases have heat-trapping properties, and we know what those properties are. This is solid science.
Coupled with that, we know our current warming trend is unprecedented (even climate skeptics have recently had to face that answer). We also know much of the harm that warming causes, and will continue to cause (from melting glaciers to unpredictable weather to disease: the mosquito line rises with temperature, allowing disease to reach cities previously high enough and cool enough to be protected). We know how these factors snowball faster and faster (for instance, less polar ice means less white reflecting heat back to space, and more dark sea absorbing it and heating the atmosphere; and permafrost melting to release even more greenhouse gases, previously trapped).
In the face of that, the pro-air-pollution stance is indefensible. Why are people so emotionally bent on making this problem worse, when making it better helps everyoneand even creates new industries?
The irony of the "green movement"....They want to reduce C02, yet increased C02 results in faster plant growth and increased vegetation...It is an easily proven fact that C02 increases plant growth...In reality if they were really "green" they would want more C02...lol
It's a good start, but Apple (and all the others) need to step-up and do more. Cause global warming can't be denied.
At the same rates as the increased CO2 levels - no.It is an easily proven fact that C02 increases plant growth.