Below is what Americans were watching on their TVs when Cathode Ray Tube display devices were first being MASS introduced in the mid 1950s. Technically, the first distribution was in the 1930s (boum, boum, below) - but there was an interruption (World War II, boum boum) during which sales of TVs in the USA and Europe stopped. The TV mass market sales resumed in the late 1940s. When in 1951 the "CBS Columbia" TV was priced at $499.95, people thought it controversial that white Italian American Frank Sinatra was singing a duet with black Ella Fitzgerald (Moolight In Vermont).
If today the developed nations are saying that Africa and Asia is not as far advanced as the USA was in the 1930s, 40s, and 1950s... boum boum, I beg to **** differ.
If the developed nations are saying that, in hindsight, TVs and CRTs should not have been introduced into our nations, and we are trying to save Africa from our fate, then we need a single, simple, logical example of a TV "e-waste" disaster here in the USA. Who was poisoned by the television? Who died? What is the USA equivalent of the "most toxic place on earth"? And did the pollution generated by TVs in the 1950s outweigh the image of Ella singing with Frank on TV? That would be the case for sacrificing internet in Africa to stop "digital dumps".
The entire case against reuse rests on false data - that 80% of the exports are NOT reused or repaired, but are primitively burned in witches brews and caldrons by black and yellow children. Residue, yes... but 80%?? This is complete and utter malarky. One would imagine a dump in the USA somewhere has resulted in someone in America being harmed since 1938. The only Boum, Boum was in the sound system.
(the video of Moonlight in Vermont was removed by youtube... I liked the showing of interacial singing... but maybe this replacement 1951 video will stand in)...
If today the developed nations are saying that Africa and Asia is not as far advanced as the USA was in the 1930s, 40s, and 1950s... boum boum, I beg to **** differ.
If the developed nations are saying that, in hindsight, TVs and CRTs should not have been introduced into our nations, and we are trying to save Africa from our fate, then we need a single, simple, logical example of a TV "e-waste" disaster here in the USA. Who was poisoned by the television? Who died? What is the USA equivalent of the "most toxic place on earth"? And did the pollution generated by TVs in the 1950s outweigh the image of Ella singing with Frank on TV? That would be the case for sacrificing internet in Africa to stop "digital dumps".The entire case against reuse rests on false data - that 80% of the exports are NOT reused or repaired, but are primitively burned in witches brews and caldrons by black and yellow children. Residue, yes... but 80%?? This is complete and utter malarky. One would imagine a dump in the USA somewhere has resulted in someone in America being harmed since 1938. The only Boum, Boum was in the sound system.
