BEHIND HER FEET
Conversation about my 5- Twitter Post today (different photo mashup).
Thesis: Post Colonialist OEMs continue to benefit from virgin raw material extraction, which was opposed 50 years ago by Environmental Activists. Today, the Planned Obsolescence Privileged OEMs (POPOs) have twisted environmental laws to inflict collateral damage on the #RightToRepair and #Reuse Tech Sector.
They do it with #PovertyPorn, and lies about exports being dumped 80% of the time in small city scrapyards like Agbogbloshie. They use our enviro sense of shame about out own consumption to trick us into shredding stuff that poor people need and want, lest it be one day discarded by the poor after decades of reuse. We unwittingly fell for a Ptolemy Story, that the Circular Economy Revolves around White Countries. We let our atonement #RighteousnessTrap for colonialist past crimes distract from the Mining, Forestry, Petroleum and other Subsidized goods. Without the raw material and energy subsidies, and extraction from the global south, the value of Secondhand Goods would increase to full potential.
