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Apple Stores Celebrate Earth Day With Green Logos and Staff T-Shirts
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The poster did not say anything about global warming. And the poster is right about the global cooling awareness on earth day. When I was a child in school, a whole day talked about the various issues involving saving the earth, and global cooling was one of the biggest consquences of doing nothing, well, according to the school.
A side note, denying climate change is silly, it has been happiness for a billion-plus years. But, human influence on global climate change is still debatable.
Whether it's debatable or not, you have to ask yourself if it's worth taking a risk and doing nothing before it's too late to reverse the trend.
Yeah, Apple is the paragon of bloody environmental conscientiousness ... by gluing batteries into its Macs and flooding the market with countless iDevices. Don't get me wrong. I love my Retina MacBook Pro (etc), but this is such a hypocritical/cynical move by Apple. The worst part is that they probably don't even realise it.
How many cotton plants were mercilessly murdered to make these shirts?
In all seriousness though, this seems like a huge waste of resources for nothing but a little PR.
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Too late for what exactly? The planet has been warmed up a lot more in the past than what humans are doing to it currently. Human activity is also putting off the next ice age by several thousand years.
It's amazing to me that people are wringing their hands about a 1 meter increase in global sea levels over the course of 100+ years but don't seem willing to acknowledge that the planet, of its own accord, does much nastier things when humans aren't even involved. Apparently NYC under 1000 feet of glacier ice would be completely okay with global warming freak-out people.
In all seriousness though, this seems like a huge waste of resources for nothing but a little PR.
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Too late for what exactly? The planet has been warmed up a lot more in the past than what humans are doing to it currently. Human activity is also putting off the next ice age by several thousand years.
It's amazing to me that people are wringing their hands about a 1 meter increase in global sea levels over the course of 100+ years but don't seem willing to acknowledge that the planet, of its own accord, does much nastier things when humans aren't even involved. Apparently NYC under 1000 feet of glacier ice would be completely okay with global warming freak-out people.
Is it really that green to make and provide all your staff with green shirts just to wear on one day of the year?
If you think the market is "flooded with countless iDevices", you should look to yourself as the problem, not Apple. Apple only supply, it's us as buyers that demand, so if there are too many out there it's our own fault.
If you think the market is "flooded with countless iDevices", you should look to yourself as the problem, not Apple. Apple only supply, it's us as buyers that demand, so if there are too many out there it's our own fault.
The problem with green energy is even if you buy it directly you are not necessarily getting green energy, your actual power could come from the coal plant down the street since the load dispatcher isn't looking at where you bought it but how to best manage the grid. What you are paying for is for a green producer to be able to produce and sell green power and offset power from other sources. Buying credits does the same thing since it creates a market for green power that might not exist absent salable credits.
However, "This store has offset its carbon footprint by buying green energy credits" isn't a sexy as what they put up so guess which marketeers will go with?
The problem is that the data can be flawed as well as the conclusions. Oh, and anything based on consensus is a religion or faith. If you don't have faith in your own findings, you are not really much of a scientist.
Company that designs disposable computer systems honors Earth Day
How cute.
How cute.
How about save your storage day? With your 128 gb embedded into the SIM tray, you don't have to keep paying $200 extra every year!
Environmentally conscious, yet blissfully unaware of suicide nets.
Thinks clean energy is generated by unicorns and rainbows.
Thinks clean energy is generated by unicorns and rainbows.
In the scientific world, consensus is built by conducting experiments and analyzing data and peer reviewed studies to assess the validity of the conclusions. Just because a scientist has made some findings doesn't mean they blindly have faith in them, they often conduct further studies to validate the results and share the data with others to see if they can replicate the results. Sure, they can have flawed data but that eventually comes out, such as the discredited study claiming a link between vaccines and autism. Unusual or earth shaking results are subject to scrutiny because scientists are skeptical by nature, as a result consensus in the scientific community is not based on religion or faith. Sure, there is always some scientist who says "You're all wrong," but except for vary rare cases they tend to be on the lunatic fringe or bought and paid for by some special interest who is impacted negatively by the prevailing scientific viewpoint.
That being said, Apple could go further and build all of their computers with replaceable memory and socketed CPU and GPU. The machines would last longer.
Oh, and just one more thing: Everyone is aware of The Environment. Earth Day is a marketing tool.
This is hilarious and sad at the same time. I'm all for debate and discussion, but you like some paranoid conspiracy theorist. I'll just hit the ignore button though because you told me to go to hell.
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Apple could celebrate earth day, by not releasing yearly disposable new electronic products that they make obsolete as fast as possible. I find all this green wash very annoying. I would have much more respect towards the company if they would celebrate their greed openly.
You're assuming that next generation CPUs and GPUs would be compatible with older MBs, offer better performance with exiting MB design, and be available at a price that makes upgrading economically viable. It would be nice to be able to upgrade the memory, however.
It's consensus that we should stop at red lights. So I'm not going to stop at red lights anymore, starting today. Because surely, someday we'll see that we were wrong to stop.
Nothing says green like printing more stuff to say your green.
So you're saying you can't trust anything over 115 years old, which is about as old as the oldest person alive?
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Can you cite a source for your "Fiery ball" theory, please?
I am a scientist and I can tell you that few things can be said to be "facts." When I publish a study I say that my hypothesis was "supported" or "not supported". I never say that something was proven because I can't prove anything. I can occasionally disprove something, but even that is hard because there might be other extraneous variables that I can't control.
The climate change scientists that are any good are claiming that current evidence shows that the climate is indeed getting warmer and it is likely that man is responsible for it. What the layman hears is "FACT: Global Warming is caused by man."
The reality is that we only have a very small window in which we have data and that data does support the conclusion that man is contributing to the changing temperatures. What many people rightly point out is that there have been plenty of long-established theories that eventually were proven completely false. It remains to be seen whether climate change will be one of those.
Most conservative complain about making policies that burden employers over something that cannot be conclusively proven without many thousands of years of observations.
Most liberals complain that it is better to be safe than sorry since at the moment it appears to be correct.
Let's not insult each other over this. And I think all of us should, regardless of politics be for more responsibility for not wasting resources or polluting our air and water.
They justify it with their recycling program. But there's no reason Apple couldn't just make their computers upgradeable while still running their program.