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The memes of the climate

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The climate of the memes of the climate!

Planet is on fire!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not claiming they aren’t producing more than people need just that people seem to want more. There is a sure conversation around the psychology of enticing people to constantly buy buy buy and how lots of products are ‘disposable’ though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So they are definitely producing more than people want? That conflicts with what you previously said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No they are producing more than people need. People are buying what they want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And I think people should buy fairphones. It's a great idea and it needs to be a compelling phone to get more people to buy it.

The problem is that ethics alone as a reason to buy is shit because it's better to go used ethically.

It's the reusable grocery bag of phones as long as it's not comparable to other phones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh yeah for sure. I want to see fairpjone succeed but you’re right about the ethical argument.

To be super clear, definitely don’t think all this is up to the consumer to change, more along government and systems probably.