Wednesday, November 28th 2007
Nintendo, Microsoft and Philips Fail to Show Any Environmental Credentials
The latest edition of Greenpeace's quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics published yesterday, revealed that Nintendo, Microsoft and Philips completely fail to show any environmental credentials when it comes to e-waste. The Guide ranks companies according to their policies and practices on toxic chemicals and takeback. Along with mobile phone and personal computer companies, the latest report adds the biggest makers of TVs and games consoles. Old TVs are a large part of e-waste and the games console market is one of the fastest growing in consumer electronics according to Greenpeace.
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Greenpeace
Nintendo has the dubious honour of being the first company to score 0/10 in the guide. Microsoft did little better, scoring only 2.7. Philips is the lowest TV-maker scoring only 2.
43 Comments on Nintendo, Microsoft and Philips Fail to Show Any Environmental Credentials
The only political thing about global warming is politicians and lobbyists trying to make people, like you, believe we don't have to worry about anything so they and their subsidiary companies can keep our economy moving in a "greedy" way.
You are literally making things up out of the blue, just off the top off you head. You need to stop and take in sound science and piece things together to understand what is really going on. I urge you to take this matter more seriously.
Also, am I making up the fact that Mount Pinatubo polluted 1,600,000,000 pounds of zinc, 1,200,000,000 pounds of copper, 1,100,000,000 pounds of chromium, 600,000,000 pounds of nickel, 200,000,000 pounds of lead, 20,000,000 pounds of arsenic, 2,000,000 pounds of cadmium, & 1,600,000 pounds of mercury, & more CO2 than all cars ever made into the atmosphere and on the earth - all the while I am somehow NOT poisoned and perfectly healthy, but now that I bought a 4 pound Nintendo Wii my Grandchildren are somehow screwed? - talk about blowing things out of proportion. That's why I say. If you buy into this political garbage, you're an absolute moron. Try thinking for yourself sometime. I do.
Future generations of the human species will undoubtedly be suffering the consequences of Global Warming (wether it be trying to counter act or stop it other together) that people tend not to take very seriously right now.
My original point is the fact that if Nintendo switches to swirly lightbulbs, it won't help the climate whatsoever. If you had any business sense you'd realize that you always want to go for "The best bang for your buck". In the pollution sense, we need to go Nuclear + Hydrogen. That way, the only greenhouse gasses would be from livestock... However we can't go Nuclear because it's you same libs who imposed the Coal plants in the first place.
If you really care about your carbon footprint, why do you own a PC? You know it's going to pollute the earth and poison your grandchildren. Also it uses electricity. Why do you own a car? Do you know how fucked up it is to own a car? Why do you eat food that was processed with carbon-emmitting tractors and factories. Why do you eat meat? You do know that livestock pollutes more than all transportation combined - right? Why do you wear clothes that were made in factories in china - powered by Coal plants? You know they had to be shipped here via Diesel ships. Why don't you check yourself before you start blaming everyone else. Once you go fruitarian, live in a dirt hole in the ground, and make all of your clothes yourself out of dead tree leaves i'll take you a little be more seriously (no i wont).
Give us Nuclear, and give us Hydrogen!!! Leave Nintendo alone! You're no better (or greener) than they are!
And as far as owning a PC, driving a car, eating meat, and wearing clothing from overseas? I do the darn best I can with what is available for me. My PC components are used and are all ROHS certified. I gave up my 35mpg car and my 55mpg motorcycle and now carpool, take public transit(1 hr and 45min ride), walk, and bike. I get my veggies from a farmers market, and it beans and egg for protein. I proudly buy "made in USA" and if not I buy used clothing. It's the little things that we do that make a difference.
And I would not have to go through all those measures if not for the small minded individuals in society who inhibit actual progress. We have poor public transport, poor nutrition education, and we rely on poor people to make our clothes because we are to cheap to pay our own American brothers and sisters who need jobs.
So you can dwell in your feelings of powerlessness; but please, just because you cannot muster the strength or mental capacity to plan for a brighter future, it should not mean you should bad mouth those trying.
It's obvious you and others that think like you are locked in defeat of "follow the system," and it just shows how our leaders and corporations have thrawrted what it means to be American; to be able to stand againts those that wish to inhibit our health and happiness. I know I would not be happy seeing millions of electronics in my back yard, especially if those items are poisoning my fellow human beings.
The things you speak of, including the buying of Wiis (although it does effect green house emissions on a larger scale basis) are a miniscule worry. The things we need to worry about are mentioned in my summary.
You can sit here and argue all day and place blames but the fact is, and I'm exaggerating nothing:
1. You went from saying global warming isn't caused by man.
2. To saying Wiis don't contribute to global warming.
3. Accepting that Global Warming is a real issue (unnaturally).
4. Placing blame on me, and others and saying you don't trust me.
It becomes quite apparent that I've already gained your trust, because you already believe me about global warming. At that point, you just placed blame on me for "not doing my part". You place blame instead of accepting something you realize but won't accept.
____ THIS JUST IN!!!
A complete list of things caused by global warming
Agricultural land increase, Africa devastated, African aid threatened, Africa hit hardest, air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, Antarctic grass flourishes, anxiety, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic lakes disappear, asthma, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, atmospheric defiance, atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, bananas destroyed, bananas grow, beetle infestation, bet for $10,000, better beer, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, bird visitors drop, birds return early, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, bluetongue, boredom, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain Siberian, British gardens change, 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environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, diseases move north, Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early marriages, early spring, earlier pollen season, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth spins faster, Earth to explode, earth upside down, Earth wobbling, earthquakes, El Niño intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (human, civilisation, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, ladybirds, bats, pandas, pikas, polar bears, pigmy possums, gorillas, koalas, walrus, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang-utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage, famine, farmers go under, fashion disaster, fever,figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flesh eating disease, flood patterns change, floods, floods of beaches and cities, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, food prices rise, food security threat (SA), footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frostbite, frosts, fungi fruitful, fungi invasion, games change, Garden of Eden wilts, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes, glacial retreat, glacial growth, glacier wrapped, global cooling, global dimming, glowing clouds, god melts, golf Masters wrecked, Gore omnipresence, grandstanding, grasslands wetter, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, hazardous waste sites breached, health of children harmed, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes (Australia), heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, homeless 50 million, hornets, high court debates, human development faces unprecedented reversal, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, human health risk, hurricanes, hurricane reduction, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, illness and death, inclement weather, infrastructure failure (Canada), Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, industry threatened, infectious diseases, inflation in China, insurance premium rises, invasion of cats, invasion of herons, invasion of midges, island disappears, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, kitten boom, krill decline, lake and stream productivity decline, lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful, lawyers' income increased (surprise surprise!), lightning related insurance claims, little response in the atmosphere, lush growth in rain forests, Lyme disease, Malaria, malnutrition, mammoth dung melt, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, marine dead zone, Meaching (end of the world), megacryometeors, Melanoma, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, melting permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration, migration difficult (birds), microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows, monuments imperiled, more bad air days, more research needed, mountain (Everest) shrinking, mountains break up, mountains taller, mortality lower, mudslides, National security implications, new islands, next ice age, Nile delta damaged, no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom, oaks move north, ocean acidification, ocean waves speed up, opera house to be destroyed, outdoor hockey threatened, oyster diseases, ozone loss, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, Pacific dead zone, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, phenology shifts, plankton blooms, plankton destabilised, plankton loss, plant viruses, plants march north, polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears drowning, polar bears starve, polar tours scrapped, porpoise astray, profits collapse, psychosocial disturbances, puffin decline, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rainfall reduction, rape wave, refugees, reindeer larger, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rice threatened, rice yields crash, riches, rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war, rivers dry up, river flow impacted, rivers raised, roads wear out, rockfalls, rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, 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colourful, trees more colourful, trees lush, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, tsunamis, turtles crash, turtles lay earlier, UK Katrina, Vampire moths, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions, walrus displaced, walrus pups orphaned, war, wars over water, wars threaten billions, water bills double, water supply unreliability, water scarcity (20% of increase), water stress, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weeds, Western aid cancelled out, West Nile fever, whales move north, wheat yields crushed in Australia, white Christmas dream ends, wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, wine - harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine - more English, wine -German boon, wine - no more French , winters in Britain colder, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World bankruptcy, World in crisis, World in flames, Yellow fever.
and all on 0.006 deg C per year!
F-22 you are crazy trying to argue with the little global warming anti-American brownshirtistas and their mind numbed programming. I'll buy you a beer anytime you're in Chicago.
Oh, and that will be a COLD beer. courtesy of non-cfc compliant reefer circa 1963.
Didn't know our economy was so fu**ed up either. Really just a socialist movement that enviro-whacko stuff. Notice all the commies are hiding out under thier banners now?
Usually the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
In time the truth will come out and both sides will claim victory as they twist and spin the symantics of what was said in the past.
Regardless of global warming or which side you take on it, it is still not a wise idea to trash the only planet on which you have to live.
I am not an enviro-whacko, tree-hugging, save every last bug type of person, but some of the corporate pollution being dumped in the lakes and rivers of the US is disgusting.
I am not suggesting that everyone give up their SUVs or that we sign the Kyoto treaty (which is total BS if you actually take the time to read it), but I think we, as a country, can do better.
Just my 2 cents.
In any event, for every article you could site as a reference I could site an opposing view with supportive data (this for instance).
I do not wish to argue the causation of global warming, but my last statements still stands.
A cleaner earth is a better earth.