system7
15-08-2010, 07:36 PM
Shocking article in the Telegraph yesterday. American kids 11-18 now spend 11 hours a day connected to an electronic gadget of some sort! :eek:
90% of these US males and 70% of females are predicted to end up fat due to lack of exercise/poor diet and lifestyle. :eek:
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To make a PC uses 1.8 tons of materials. To extract the gold for a single mobile phone creates 220lbs of waste rock. 500m old mobile phones are sitting in US drawers and americans throw away 100m phones and computers a year generating 1m tonnes of toxic lead/cadmium etc. waste which is dumped in landfill and causes birth defects in China, which dumps 50m tons of toxic waste a year as the worlds waste disposal "expert". :eek:
The whole thing is quite unsustainable. Every business and government is promoting the internet, but is it making kids brighter? The answer is No. 78% of kids now fail 8th. grade English and are scarcely literate. Many colleges have noted that providing laptops actually reduce kids educational achievements, since they use them to waste time with violent games, social sites for relative strangers and, er, pron. :huh:
Some people might say, "So, wassa problem with gadgets?" But as an internet junkie myself, I gotta wonder if I would do better to find better uses for my time than staring at a glowing screen. It's about time we questioned where we are going on this. :rolleye:
90% of these US males and 70% of females are predicted to end up fat due to lack of exercise/poor diet and lifestyle. :eek:
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To make a PC uses 1.8 tons of materials. To extract the gold for a single mobile phone creates 220lbs of waste rock. 500m old mobile phones are sitting in US drawers and americans throw away 100m phones and computers a year generating 1m tonnes of toxic lead/cadmium etc. waste which is dumped in landfill and causes birth defects in China, which dumps 50m tons of toxic waste a year as the worlds waste disposal "expert". :eek:
The whole thing is quite unsustainable. Every business and government is promoting the internet, but is it making kids brighter? The answer is No. 78% of kids now fail 8th. grade English and are scarcely literate. Many colleges have noted that providing laptops actually reduce kids educational achievements, since they use them to waste time with violent games, social sites for relative strangers and, er, pron. :huh:
Some people might say, "So, wassa problem with gadgets?" But as an internet junkie myself, I gotta wonder if I would do better to find better uses for my time than staring at a glowing screen. It's about time we questioned where we are going on this. :rolleye: