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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Oct-2018 19:50:45 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

   One upside is that giving up disposable electronics would mean a return to DIY culture, a boost to right to repair, a return of the fix-it shop. That would be good for our communities.

   So there are upsides, they're just different then the ones we're being marketed today.

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   • Diane (alienghic@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Oct-2018 21:30:51 UTC Diane

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     @cwebber For what it's worth the biggest environmental impacts aren't electronic manufacturing.

     Here's a list one integrated set of most significant changes to limit global warming.
     https://www.drawdown.org/solutions

     Though plastic trash is a different problem from what they were analyzing.

     Biggest individual impacts are have fewer children, stop flying, walk places, use green power, and eat a plant based diet.
     https://phys.org/news/2017-07-effective-individual-tackle-climate-discussed.html

     Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.