'The Digital Dump'
October 16, 2007 7:42 AM Subscribe
If you have a green conscience, this is a must see documentary. I had the privilege of seeing it a few days ago, and was shocked by the images. Little children standing in front of huge piles of junk electronics, burning and filling up the air with toxic smoke. This was filmed in Lagos, Nigeria, one of the dumping grounds for all the unwanted computers, and other products from the American and European consumerist frenzy. Makes you think hard about environmental politics and the lack of respect we show as a nation, towards our less fortunate neighbors!
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You know, Lawrence Summers once said that it made economic sense for poor countries to take pollution from the west, or other wealthy countries for money, because the wealthy countries were much more polluted. I believe he later claimed an aide or something wrote that for him. here is the wikipedia article on that.
Just goes to show how idiotic Economists can be.
posted by delmoi at 7:49 AM on October 16, 2007
Just goes to show how idiotic Economists can be.
posted by delmoi at 7:49 AM on October 16, 2007
Why do the little children have to stand in front the huge piles of burning junk electronics? Is there nowhere else to stand?
posted by luser at 7:56 AM on October 16, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by luser at 7:56 AM on October 16, 2007 [1 favorite]
Unless it is the little children that are burning and filling up the air with toxic smoke. That would be outrageous.
posted by luser at 7:59 AM on October 16, 2007
posted by luser at 7:59 AM on October 16, 2007
Why do the little children have to stand in front the huge piles of burning junk electronics? Is there nowhere else to stand?
They're just trying to update their MySpace profiles, luser. C'mon.
posted by NationalKato at 8:00 AM on October 16, 2007
They're just trying to update their MySpace profiles, luser. C'mon.
posted by NationalKato at 8:00 AM on October 16, 2007
"Why do the little children have to stand in front the huge piles of burning junk electronics? Is there nowhere else to stand?"
Don't you remember when you were a kid? You couldn't have kept me away.
posted by true at 8:00 AM on October 16, 2007
Don't you remember when you were a kid? You couldn't have kept me away.
posted by true at 8:00 AM on October 16, 2007
our less fortunate neighbors
This phrase does little to illuminate the true dynamic that exists between the West and the "developing world", and also does little to explain why places like Nigeria accept such trash in the first place.
posted by KokuRyu at 8:03 AM on October 16, 2007 [1 favorite]
This phrase does little to illuminate the true dynamic that exists between the West and the "developing world", and also does little to explain why places like Nigeria accept such trash in the first place.
posted by KokuRyu at 8:03 AM on October 16, 2007 [1 favorite]
That would be outrageous.
No, that would be awesome. Humanity is too sick to survive; it is our sober duty to destroy it in an orgy of consumption, wild abandon and suicidal excess.
I demand a solid gold cock ring polished with the grease of a thousand pulverized Belgians. I will spread disease like Johnny Appleseed, only uglier, and with a much nicer cock ring.
Forget the future! Pile up today into one giant fluffy mass, set fire to it, and then have unprotected group sex until the fire reaches us.
The end times are coming. We may as well greet their arrival from the plush interior of a Maybach upholstered with the skins of flayed children.
posted by aramaic at 8:07 AM on October 16, 2007 [2 favorites]
No, that would be awesome. Humanity is too sick to survive; it is our sober duty to destroy it in an orgy of consumption, wild abandon and suicidal excess.
I demand a solid gold cock ring polished with the grease of a thousand pulverized Belgians. I will spread disease like Johnny Appleseed, only uglier, and with a much nicer cock ring.
Forget the future! Pile up today into one giant fluffy mass, set fire to it, and then have unprotected group sex until the fire reaches us.
The end times are coming. We may as well greet their arrival from the plush interior of a Maybach upholstered with the skins of flayed children.
posted by aramaic at 8:07 AM on October 16, 2007 [2 favorites]
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