More than 68% of New European Electricity Capacity Came From Wind and Solar in 2011

[joshcryer]

86. Uh, you do realize those electronics are so cheap because they're built in unregulated sectors...

...right?

You mock me, repeatedly, for my "lack of understanding" and then pull out a bullshit strawman like that?

How fucking much do you think a Foxconn made motherboard would cost if 1) their employees had to undergo OSHA training 2) they had to have an 8 hour work day at most with mandatory overtime pay 3) they had to get 15 minute breaks every hour or two 4) they had recourse if they were fired 5) they were forced to hire adults only?

The list goes on and on and on.

They don't make their electronics, just like we don't make our electronics for the most part. When a person in the developing world buys a cheap, $20 cell phone, it is being manufactured in an area of the world that does not require the kinds of pollution standards that we have come to take for granted (many people don't know of or remember just how polluted the US was only 60 years ago).

I am not saying, of course, that the developing world won't buy renewable energy. Coal has more uses than just energy, as per my links.