Name: エレクトロニクスの話 (2010年) (The Story of Electronics (2010))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:22:57.000Z
Duration: 7 min 47 s
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This is a story about a world of obsessed with stuff.

It's a story about a system in crisis. We're trashing the planet,

程度の副詞

we're trashing each other,  and we're not even having fun.

the good thing is that when we start to understand the system

we start to see lots of places to step in and turn these problems into solutions

The other day, I couldn’t find my computer charger.

My computer is my lifeline  to my work, my friends, my music.

I know you have one too, a tangle of old chargers,

How did I end up with so many of these things?

It’s not like I’m always after the latest gadget.

My old devices broke or became so  obsolete I couldn’t use them anymore.

And not one of these old chargers fits my computer.

“Designed for the dump” sounds crazy, right?

But when you’re trying to sell lots of stuff,  it makes perfect sense.

of the companies that make our electronics.

In fact it’s a key part of our whole  unsustainable materials economy.

Designed for the dump means  making stuff to be thrown away quickly.

Today’s electronics are hard to upgrade,  easy to break, and impractical to repair.

My DVD player broke and I took it to a shop to get fixed.

The repair guy wanted $50 just to look at it!

In the 1960s, Gordon Moore,  the giant brain and semiconductor pioneer,

predicted that electronics designers could double

But somehow the bosses of these  genius designers got it all twisted up.

They seem to think Moore’s Law means every  18 months we have to throw out our old electronics

and buy more.    0:02:06.900,0:02:07.289 Problem is,   0:02:07.289,0:02:11.659 the 18 months that we use these things  are just a blip in their entire lifecycle.

And that’s where these dump designers  aren’t just causing a pain in our wallets.

They’re creating a global toxic emergency!

See, electronics start where most stuff starts, in mines and factories.

Many of our gadgets are made from  more than 1,000 different materials,

shipped from around the world to assembly plants.  There, workers turn them into products,

using loads of toxic chemicals, like PVC,  mercury, solvents and flame retardants.

Today this usually happens in far  off places that are hard to monitor.

But it used to happen near my home, in Silicon Valley,

which thanks to the electronics industry  is one of the most poisoned communities

IBM’s own data revealed that its workers making  computer chips had 40% more miscarriages

and were significantly more likely to die from blood,  brain and kidney cancer.

The same thing is starting to happen all around the world.

Turns out the high tech industry  isn’t as clean as its image.

So, after its toxic trip around the globe,  the gadget lands in my hands.

I love it for a year or so and  then it starts drifting further

from its place of honor on my desk or in my pocket.

Maybe it spends a little time in my garage

which we think of as the end of its life.

But really it’s just moved on to become part  of the mountains of e-waste we make every year.

Remember how these devices were packed with toxic chemicals?  Well there’s a simple rule of production:

Computers, cell phones, TVs, all this stuff,  is just waiting to release all their toxics

Some of them are slowly releasing this  stuff even while we’re using them.

You know those fat, old TVs that people are  chucking for high-def flat screens?

They each have about 5 pounds of lead in them.  Lead! As in lead poisoning!

So almost all this e-waste either goes from my garage  to a landfill or it gets shipped overseas to the garage

workshop of some guy in Guiyu, China  whose job it is to recycle it.

I’ve visited a bunch of these  so-called recycling operations.

Workers, without protective gear, sit on the ground,  smashing open electronics to recover the valuable

metals inside and chucking or burning  the parts no one will pay them for.

poisoning families in Guiyu or India or Nigeria.

Each year we make 25 million tonnes of e-waste

And that recycling is anything but green.

So are the geniuses who design these electronics actually... evil geniuses? I don’t think so,

because the problems they’re creating are well hidden even from them.

for keep these human and environmental costs  out of sight and off their accounting books.

It’s all about externalizing the true costs of production.

Instead of companies paying to make their facilities  safe the workers pay with their health.

Instead of them paying to redesign using less toxics  villagers pay by losing their clean drinking water.

Externalizing costs allows companies to keep  designing for the dump –

they get the profits and everyone else pays.

When we go along with it, it’s like  we’re looking at this toxic mess and saying to companies

“you made it, but we’ll deal with it.”

I’ve got a better idea. How about  “you made it, you deal with it”?

Imagine that instead of all this toxic e-waste piling up

we sent it to the garages of the CEOs who made it.

You can bet that they’d be on the phone  to their designers demanding they

Making companies deal with their e-waste is called  Extended Producer Responsibility

If all these old gadgets were their problem,

it would be cheaper for them to just design  longer lasting, less toxic,

and more recyclable products in the first place.

They could even make them modular,  so that when one part broke,

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