Last week I wrote a post about flying to conferences and made the point that climate change is a larger more systematic problem that needs social, economic and industrial solutions. Individual actions are nice, but ultimately our choices are so limited individual actions don't add up to much. This is clearly the case in the technology industry, where (for example) smartphone manufacturers go out of their way to make sure that their phones (55 kilograms of carbon emissions in manufacture) can't be repaired. eWaste is a problem, dirty electricity generation is a problem, mining rare earth elements, and infrastructure expansion (including waves of satellites). We could be doing all of this responsibly, but of course, we aren't. We could be regulating this properly, but of course we aren't.
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