I'm a little behind in editing and posting a number of draft blogs, but just sent this email to a university professor who shared a Grist article with me.
The Grist article is not that bad. But listen as I go on a tear of the UNU program (source of data in the Grist article). I used to have a friendly relationship with the UNU e-waste program. But they are fricking racists, and it's time to drop the mic on uncle bubba.
When I meet with the UNU boys (who are convincingly nice) I can smell the ruffled feathers. But they doubled down specifically on Joseph "Hurricane" Benson, and when proven completely wrong, hid their BS 80% press release statistic (switching from "primitively managed" to "undocumented" means "we didn't know what we were talking about when we said primitively managed but we don't want to retract our 80% BS statements in the past used to sentence the guy we applauded the arrest and sentencing of, so we use "informal sector" to imply that black techs are to be mistrusted")
Now that I have our attention, I share what I really think via the email below. Wake up, UNU. Every Univesity researcher who read you study has discredited it as Criminal Negligence. The fact that it's still being cited by environmental publications like Grist just show you to be the Thomas Midgely of surplus electronics management.
