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technology vs. environment

Where Computers Go To Die (via slashdot).

OK, but what you should really read is Silicon Hell, the classic environmental expose from the SFBG.

originally posted by jdavis

Posted by Adam on November 25, 2002 6:54 PM |

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Here in southern China, where the gritty air stings your throat and circuit boards pile up like dry leaves in the gutter, a group of women squat on the sidewalk using their bare hands to pull apart the hazardous guts of a small mountain of PCs.

This is where many of America's computers go to die.

In the Pearl River Delta less than 180 miles away, in factories as immaculate as Guiyu is filthy, growing legions of young women work up to 18 hours a day, soldering chips and wires to motherboards, making the PC boxes that one day will bear the name of Hewlett-Packard or Dell or IBM.

This is where the world's personal computers are born.

Posted by: sudama | November 26, 2002 2:14 PM

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