A modern smartphone contains a large number of elements (highlighted in color). Titanium, for example, is used in the manufacture of the SIM card (light blue), and cobalt in the manufacture of the battery (orange). Hydrogen, which is contained in the housing (yellow), was already used in phones of earlier generations (1960 and 1990). Other elements, such as helium, molybdenum and cadmium, which were used in the past, are no longer present in modern smartphones. (translated by DeepL.com)
=>Full article in German (woz.ch, Le Monde diplomatique, Oct 21): The-eco-sins-of-the-digital-industry.pdf (879.02 kb)
The glacier melt team was part of the team and supported also the scientists and video production team by carrying material on the glacier of Jungfrau Joch!
To the article and video (laprairie.com)
Do we need a "managed austerity" (gesteuerte Sparsamkeit)?
Picture above: "The term cloud suggests that data will fly through the sky, but it takes a lot of rare raw materials": In the server room of a data centre.
Read the full article in German:
Birgit-Mahnkopf-gesteuerte-Sparsamkeit_2021-07-15.pdf (1.13 mb)
About the author Birgit Mahnkopf, political scientist (wikipedia.org)
Source: woz.ch
Wem gehört die Welt?
>Scobel talk (3sat.de)
Is inequality the price of growing prosperity ? Is a fairer world possible? Gert Scobel discusses global capitalism and approaches to changing our economic system with climate activist Luisa Neubauer and economic sociologist Stefan Brunnhuber.