Annie Leonard's "The Story of Electronics"
Annie Leonard is at it again, with a spin-off from her amazing "The Story of Stuff" movie called "The Story of Electronics." This latest seven-minute semi-animated feature is specifically about electronics. This is a topic which was certainly covered in "The Story of Stuff," but here it is fleshed out and the point brought home even more effectively: electronics are bad for the planet.
It's hard to imagine, as you look at a cell phone, television, or iPod, that it represents a vast swath of environmental devastation. Sadly, the electronics industry has one of the worst environmental records.
It's hard to imagine, as you look at a cell phone, television, or iPod, that it represents a vast swath of environmental devastation. Sadly, the electronics industry has one of the worst environmental records.
For example, Silicon Valley which "thanks to the electronics industry is one of the most poisoned communities in the United States." IBM's internal studies found that the workers who assembled their chips had 40% more miscarriages, not to mention skyrocketing rates of cancer.
