"It's as if recoiling from images of poverty is becoming equated with compassion."
That quote was one of my most powerful insights in 2011, crystalized after reading the December Bloomberg piece on fairtrade cotton and Victoria's Secret. It's a powerful human impulse to harness, and Bloomberg reporter Cam Newton (not the NFL player) is not the only "parasite of the poor". Another report came out yesterday from our friends at BAN, loaded with allegation, evidence, and a solution for your e-waste angst, dissonance, panic, unease, discomfort, and fear. The witch doctor in Seattle has a Copyrighted Logo cure for your toxic juju.
It's the same parasitic business model, harnessing our cognitive risk, unease, and good intentions (or fear of blackmail via public watchdog "outing") without sharing a dime with the poor people used in the process. Read BAN.org's press release / email. Then look for evidence to support their allegation.
That quote was one of my most powerful insights in 2011, crystalized after reading the December Bloomberg piece on fairtrade cotton and Victoria's Secret. It's a powerful human impulse to harness, and Bloomberg reporter Cam Newton (not the NFL player) is not the only "parasite of the poor". Another report came out yesterday from our friends at BAN, loaded with allegation, evidence, and a solution for your e-waste angst, dissonance, panic, unease, discomfort, and fear. The witch doctor in Seattle has a Copyrighted Logo cure for your toxic juju.
It's the same parasitic business model, harnessing our cognitive risk, unease, and good intentions (or fear of blackmail via public watchdog "outing") without sharing a dime with the poor people used in the process. Read BAN.org's press release / email. Then look for evidence to support their allegation.
Most people, Most recyclers, Most Toxic Place. Vast Majority... Hyperbole accusations are a bad sign. The NGO doesn't know what it is talking about, and is making "facts" up as it goes along. Providing false evidence is the first signal that someone is either mistaken or has an angle.But what most people don’t know is that most companies that call themselves electronics recyclers are not really recyclers at all. They are global e-waste dumpers. The vast majority of companies and organizations touting themselves as environmentally friendly “recyclers” are just selling this highly toxic scrap to brokers, who then ship to developing countries in African and Asia where all this waste is broken down in highly dangerous and destructive ways, creating what 60 Minutes calls “the most toxic places on earth” (seewww.ban.org/photogallery).
