In Part I, "Due Disclosure", I asked BAN to come out on the record about the exaggerated mathematics about "e-waste exports". Those fake numbers create false perceptions about importers, and wreck the reputations and finances of many "Geeks of Color" in the developing world. PT Imtech, Medi-Com, and Joseph Benson are three solid examples of people who were doing fantastic things with "discarded" electronics they purchased from wealthy countries for elective upgrade and refurbishment. They were arrested, or their goods seized. In Vegas, Jim Puckett described this as "collateral damage."
In Part III, I will go into specific cases of this "collateral damage", where an importer or a market was unfairly characterized in the Western Press.
"Recycling Safari" has become a perverse form of "waste eco-tourism". Liberal activists go straight to the "source" of poverty, and declare "I was there". It impresses millions who are at a comfortable distance from poverty. But if you live near poverty for a long time, your eyes adjust. Some things associated with poverty include hope. You will find poverty aggregating around reuse, repair, resale, and recycling the way people in a deep well are gathered around a ladder. Proximity of a solution to a problem... it's a crazy weird thing to raise money to attack.
Let's attack something we all agree about, anti-globalists, alter-globalists, and globalists alike.
Racism.
