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hello i'm matthew dennis in doha are in these are the top stories here it out is there the united states has claimed victory after missiles were filed on syria the u.s. says it's locked and loaded for another military strike if the syrian government uses chemical weapons again patty culhane has the latest from the pentagon argues three words to describe this operation precise overwhelming and effective at the pentagon claims of success as they roll out slides to show what they say is total destruction of three chemical weapon sites in syria a research facility a bunker and a storage area in all one hundred five missiles and bombs fired from u.s. british and french ships submarines and aircraft the pentagon says russia didn't try to fire back and they claim all of syria's attempts to shoot them down failed we've attacked the heart of the syrian chemical weapons program i'm not saying they're not going to be able to reconstitute their theory and it's not saying that
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it's going to continue but this is dealt them a very serious blow so that i think that's that's the core of what i'm saying u.s. president donald trump was quick to claim victory on twitter writing mission accomplished a spokesperson here at the pentagon tried to clarify that rather broad statement saying this particular mission was successful or accomplished they admit though they didn't destroy all of syria's suspected chemical weapons russia and syria have denied that chemical weapons were used investigators from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons arrived in syria hours after the strikes the u.s. says it didn't need to wait for their findings they have evidence enough but they've provided none of it to the public one a lot of this has to do with intelligence and and i'm very happy to show evidence if i can but we were very confident about the decisions we made the u.s. is not saying this is over they say that depends entirely on what the assad
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government decides to do next particle hane al-jazeera at the. with a warning a future action came during a un security council meeting on saturday moscow called the council into emergency session to condemn the u.s. led action but the drafted resolution was voted down by member countries but i've been speaking to the u.s. state department spokeswoman have the new about the strikes she says the military operation has had the intended effect that we have watched as five hundred thousand civilians have been killed in syria for far too many years and when we found what recently happened last saturday with the gassing of innocent women children and men that was far too far if united states came together with those other countries then in a math is not just to syria but also to russia and the other backer iran saying we will not tolerate this the world cannot tolerate. will syria has dominated
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discussions on the second and final day of the summit of the americas in peru u.s. vice president mike pence called on leaders to support the u.s. led strikes he said he's confident government forces use chlorine gas in last week's suspected chemical attack on duma somali security forces a block's emer offices from transporting military equipment to the u.a.e. offices were full so unloaded military equipment from a private jet before taking off relations between the two countries have been strained since the u.a.e. announced plans to build a military base in somalia's breakaway territory of somaliland. tens of thousands of protests as of march in hungary and capital budapest against what they say was an unfair election win by prime minister viktor orban this over and won another landslide victory last sunday for a third successive term after a campaign dominated by a strong anti immigrant message demonstrates is
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a calling for a recount of the ballots a free media a new election laws. the funeral of the anti-apartheid activists when the magic is elemental or has been held in south africa thousands of people gathered in of the nation she died almost two weeks ago in johannesburg at the age of eighty one after a long illness. those are the headlines death by design is next. i'm attached to my phone my computer my tablet. indeed amazes me
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how in just twenty years they've completely changed the way i live and communicate . our devices are sleek and elegant. we store our lives in a beautiful child. was it was. i started making this film to explore the impact of our digital revolution. and then secrets the industry tried to hide for years began to spill out. that it. was. our electronics are made and unmade is dirty and dangerous i
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am it's a global story of damaged lives environmental destruction and devices that are designed to die. if to. elite . in massive china. industrialization i've put a huge pressure on our ecosystem and on the environment. when it comes to i t. industry many people think it's. it's green or natural it's
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rain or some people think it's even think it's virtual. but in our investigation we find it's not like that. this pollution is having different consequences but i think that the the impact the biggest impact is on this public health we have nearly three hundred million who are residents who don't have access to sufficient saved drinking water. going to see what they almost see the how to shows you how many come out not. to
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come to your show you should get them to check. the over they get it it's a good idea. to just it's is a hold up you hold one woman's event i guess it was shy then but. i keep thinking about the moment when i face all those environmental and social damage. river you know which carries all the ways to lake. river and place old ladies suddenly down on their knees in front of me. was. no not enough to let you know. i don't have any sort of government administrative power and don't have much financial resources to deal with this but i told myself at that moment in front of
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those ladies i told myself that. at least i need to bring the message out. i need to make sure that all the users of all those gadgets they need to be informed about this. i moved to this area in one nine hundred sixty nine to go to law school because i said i wanted to help people who didn't have the means to represent themselves. it was a time when most people are not heard of the semiconductor industry. but within a few years people started seeing the the birth of what has become the you know global electronics industry. top names
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were companies hewlett packard apple intel advanced micro devices. the virtually the who's who of the electronics industry. and of course the granddaddy of them all was i.b.m. . when i got a card and i.b.m. that was great that was the company to work for at the time i could go any place where he worked i.b.m. and i don't need an id you just write a check it was that easy i.b.m. had that much clowne. i was the first marker processor buyer for i.b.m. . in the early eighty's the idea of a personal computer which was was on oxymoron right i mean personal computer what end it what would you use it for anyway but it got legs and we started the p.c. business the first year they shipped fifty thousand units. and so we went from a thousand a week to forty thousand a week and at that point the p.c.
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was launched. from almost the very beginning you heard electronics and semiconductor production it was a clean industry they said it was as clean as a hospital but what they weren't telling people was that it was really a chemical and lay industry and that the magic of making these microcircuits relied on the use of hundreds if not thousands of very toxic chemicals and that's why they have clean rooms that's why they have bunny suits to try to protect the chips it was never designed to protect the workers it was always designed to protect the product itself oh my god those of a lot of different chemicals they built the disk drives we had to strip them out and then would literally have to dip i'm in severe gas and with a sponge it just with arm with severe i dunno what it was is i just knew it stunk
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really bad and you couldn't get it on your skin because it would burn you like nobody's business what what happened was people started getting sick with very strange kinds of illnesses things that didn't seem to make a lot of sense and didn't seem to hang together but increasingly as this happened more and more there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the chemical exposure on the job. one put music on yeah right you want to turn on the music from. that's some good music on today. right there. but beside me there's a thing of. the. one nine hundred seventy five i was eighteen years old and i started working in the electronics field i went to
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a specter of physics and they just hired me just like. i was making the end of the laser and i would have to mix up this chemical in i used to call it green go. and get the consistency and then put into a spray gun and i would have to heat that up after a glued on together that was just all day that i did. yvette in know the material she was using turns out to be probably in the vicinity of fifty percent little excited she didn't know she was exposed to lead intel with it i got pregnant with mark in one thousand seventy nine and that was full term my months and we're just really happy about it. that he doesn't even know to cross the street and not know a car is coming to stop going to the restroom you know i have to go with him in there so i have to system with everything. number one or you better know.
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if i knew what i know now how to read out a spec or fix at the time it was unnecessary it just. breaks my heart that i could avoid it. oh we're filing this lawsuit against your employer and it's a lawsuit for his son who was born with severe developmental disabilities and it's a suit concealment of systemic chemical poisoning in case of a bet and for the direct injuries to mark. marks condition isn't like a cold take antibiotics and you're going to be fine and by a days this is life. your love just overrides all that and you do what you got to do to this day i still do that. i'm sorry getting. and.
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i discovered i.b.m. had a corporate mortality. which they kept for thirty years and it kept track of the causes of death of their lloyd's the most dramatic findings were about cancer for the company as a whole this was thirty three thousand deaths that were in this corporate mortality file so included people who had worked all over the u.s. . but then when you look at specific plants like the i.b.m. plant in san jose there was some extraordinary excess costs of deaths one was brain cancer another was not hard can some form or another was melanoma of the skin and in the women breast cancer was three and four fold higher than expected. that was the heart of this settles a lawsuit. in a santa clara courtroom today the first trial out of more than two hundred similar lawsuits filed against i.b.m. former i.b.m.
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workers jim bore and a lighter hernandez say they developed cancer from exposure to toxic chemicals at i.b.m. san jose facility in the late seventy's or early ninety's i mean literally tried to prevent the results of the tally analysis from ever seeing the light of day in fact they went to the judge and said this can't be used in this case a lot of hernandez's not dead she's going to be in the court room and not only was it not relevant the judge said it might prejudice the jury if they saw what these excess costs deaths were and so he denied the use of it in the court many of the brands will respond questions by saying no one has ever proved to me that a single person has died from exposure to these chemicals either within inside their factories or outside of the factories and of discussion. but that's not the way that we approach environmental or occupational health in the world we are not
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flying blind here at all especially on the chemicals at issue here in the electronics industry actually and most of the common chemical used in all industrial manufacturing we've been at this work for forty years. if you look at the publicising generated by again you would think that we lost everything and that's simply not coming. after the trial i.b.m. matters were resolved for hundreds of people whose claims did not go to trial. what can you tell us about the settlements. i'm not going to be able to talk about any of the resolutions of the cases and. can you give any details at all did you have to agree not to reveal the details as part of the settlement all i can say is that the matters were resolved that's what i'm allowed to say.
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here in silicon valley chip companies in the other electronics production companies used hundreds if not thousands of toxic chemicals and the most of the chemicals once they're used in making the components needed to be disposed of as waste the companies ended up storing them in underground storage tanks all over the valley. but what the brilliant people who were designing these systems didn't quite think through all the way was that the solvent swer really good at dissolving things and so when you put them into a tank eventually they're going to eat their way through the tank.
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solvent that the electronics industry used in production in silicon valley in the seventy's and eighty's are now on in the groundwater and if you think about putting a drop of ink in a bathtub. that spreads really quickly and it's really hard to get that dropping back that's what we're dealing with except we're dealing with multiples of gallons of the stuff that is in the groundwater. in late one thousand nine hundred one there were over one hundred families in one little neighborhood who had serious problems and the state health department discovered that the families that were drinking the most heavily contaminated water had significantly higher rates of miscarriages and birth defects then did people in other neighborhoods with a chemical industry will often say if i had not a dime for every time i heard this that even water can kill you the most non toxic thing of course it can but only if you stick your face down in the bathtub or fall
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into you know fall into a large body of water. so that has the traditional approach to toxicology is that the more stuff you're exposed to the more harm it causes you but what we're seeing in particularly around cancer and around hormone disrupting chemicals is that it's when you're exposed to it the time of exposure so if you're in third trimester and you get even a perp or billion or parked for truly an exposure it can actually cause significant damage. we formed this silicon valley tuxes coalition and we did a summer organizing project getting people to sign petitions asking the e.p.a. step in with their authority and of a superfund program yesterday. yes. yes. and i went to a meeting in washington and presented these thousands of petitions saying we need e.p.a. to come in it's time for e.p.a. to exercise your authority and to everybody's great surprise they agreed to do that
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. so hewlett packard became a superfund site intel became a superfund site national semiconductor advanced micro devices i.b.m. you name it they were there and they were of all superfund sites. the cost of cleanup for i.b.m. as well as all the other companies has been tremendous it's an enormously slow and tedious process. if you look right over here also this is a major residential neighborhood just directly across the street from this industrial site. most of the people living here today are unaware of this huge toxic plume. and those same chemicals that are still right under where we're standing are now beginning to seep back up out of the groundwater through the soil
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and they're actually coming into the offices of these software engineers a google. and this is the one that e.p.a. said might take three hundred years to clean up. this is so complicated the devastation is so enormous that we're really talking centuries of cleanup not just years or decades. the problem is that it just keeps reoccur. please when companies started moving away from silicon valley to china i think that they were the only too happy to have the government off their back. their chinese government made an offer to multinational corporations that they couldn't refuse. you need a land and you need money and you need government approval and you need lots of people to put it all together well they have all of that in china.
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it's. just. one of the primary purposes of outsourcing is to enable companies like apple to make what are essentially an reasonable demands on manufacturers that they wouldn't and couldn't make if they actually had to employ the workers directly apple doesn't have to worry about what it means to workers when they insist on a tripling of the pace of i phone production.
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hello again i'm martine dennis in doha with the top stories here at al-jazeera the u.s. says it's locked and loaded for another military strike if the syrian government uses chemical weapons again that warning follows them a significant western allied attack against president assad's government since the seven year war began with a warning a future action came during a u.n. security council meeting on saturday a russian drafted resolution condemning the western allied strikes on syria was voted down by the member countries well i've been speaking to the u.s. state department spokeswoman heather knew it about the strikes and she says the military operation has had the intended effect. we have watched as five hundred thousand civilians have been killed in syria for far too many years and when we found what recently happened last saturday with the gassing of innocent women children and men that was far too far if united states came together with those other countries then in
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a math is not just to syria but also to russia and the other backer iran say we will not tolerate this the world cannot tolerate. well syria has dominated discussions on the second and final day of the summit of the americas in peru u.s. vice president mike pence schooled on leaders to support the u.s. led strikes he said he is confident government forces use chlorine gas in last week's suspected chemical attack on duma somali security forces a blocked. from transposing military equipment to the. offices were full so on military equipment from a private jet before taking off relations between the two countries have been strained since the us announced plans to build a military base in somalia's breakaway territory of somaliland the funeral of anti-apartheid activists winnie mandela has been held in south africa thousands of people gathered in her hometown and she died nearly two weeks ago in johannesburg
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at the age of. tens of thousands of protests as of march in the hungary and capital budapest again face a fair election win by prime minister viktor orban. successive term after a campaign dominated by a strong anti immigrant message demonstrations are calling for a recount of the ballot a free media a new election. but let's go back to death by design now.
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you know michael thank you guys new for companies in the boat out season is obviously youngest of us to do it has died and fifteen others were injured after an explosion at a foxconn factory in chengdu southwest china the father to son from john king but you know he just. walked into that occurred at around seven pm in a polishing woodshop and appears to have been triggered by an explosion of combustible dust in a duct. no one would be
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surprised that aluminum dust if it's in a high enough concentration and there is an ignition source it will produce explosion and fire this is a hazard which is extremely well known. so the fact that apple suppliers have an explosion and chandu in the plant means that they had very poor housekeeping very poor production processes that's terrible. what's completely unacceptable is that five months later at another plant within the apple supply chain they had another explosion and fire. it's outrageously inexcusable that they had a second one five months later. they set up these supply chains exactly the way they want them they monitor these
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private chains with exacting scrutiny so they know exactly what's going into their products at every point along the way. here. we have a town hall i fix the gun so it will show you how. to i have an i phone five here and them and show you a little bit about what's inside what makes it take and some of the design choices that apple made putting it together to the first thing out bill has on the bottom is to proprietary penta loeb screws this is a security screw that apple designed to keep people out of the phone once you get
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the phone open we can start to see the guts. this isn't really a phone it's pretty much a full blown computer to make your phone last for eight hours if you need a really big battery. batteries and phones last about four hundred charges every cell phone i've ever had to pop the back off you can pull the battery out swap a new battery and every year or two you have to replace the battery apple has decided with the i pod and now the i phone that they don't like that model so what they are doing is building the batteries in the phone and using proprietary screws on there and attempt to limit the lifespan of the phone to about eighteen months which is around the time when they have a new phone and they want you to buy a new one anyway. i think says a company that wants to see everything get fixed so we show people how to fix things and provide the parts tools and guides to enable them to do so helping everyone fix everything so that's the challenge it's a big challenge because there's millions of devices out there. luke and i are
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reluctant capitalists we get excited selling screwdrivers even though that seems like a boring product because we're selling people a capability with able to do something that they wouldn't have otherwise we want to make it simple and easy for people to repair their own stuff. the amount of raw materials that go on the products that we use are staggering to over five hundred pounds around materials go into making in a down south. so here's an example of a circuit board in this you waste bin this is out of apple laptop from a few years ago even if you make this circuit board in the most environmentally friendly way it's still going to use a ton of water a ton of money probably literally a ton of water lots and lots of materials. when we know for. nothing is different.
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electronics industry is closed the way is that through the american manufacturers are. they're selling a thing and they're saying well you have it but you don't really own it there's no way we're ever going to sell you a screwdriver the. ford would never sell you a car and say we're not going to make tires available to keep your car running after thirty thousand miles you have an entire ecosystem an entire industry that's built on secrecy and we're one organization that's trying to pry open the hood a little bit show people what's inside. and we've kind of been conditioned by manufacturers and brands to leave yourself on the outside don't worry about the details we make this product we give it to you and you just use this product and when it stops working you go buy a new one. when we originally started my fix it was just a way to provide people with some solution to fix broken devices. and over time
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we've realized both the manufacturing and the environmental problems are all huge concern. over the last few years i've been to china on a regular basis a lot of that related to our tool manufacturing. we're looking at getting circuit boards manufactured. this is the big rechargeable battery and this is the main circuit board in here so considering it's just a flashlight you can see it's a surprisingly complex circuit board and i've got these basic schematic of the circuit board once we did it and we'll leave them with them and. finding this supplier that is environmentally friendly has good quality and has reasonable pricing all three of those at once is probably going to be
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a challenge. for next photo. visiting factories we've found that it's surprisingly effective to show up on short notice. in general any factory of it's not willing to let you see the factory is an immediate red flag at least for someone that we don't want to do business with. this is the big. line from the factory said this is where they're edging it bringing all these nasty acids and other chemicals in. you've got
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a little bit of acid believe here you can see acid on the outside in the machine. i walked over to where there were some storage tanks and it was basically asset all over the floor and the moment i looked over that they told me get back away from here and this isn't giving me a good feeling. as far as making sure everything's done correctly environmentally it doesn't seem like that's a priority for them. and they got them out river and. the fact that it was so dear to you is the price you have to pay for the last thirty years of development you. don't want to buy from them.
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what do the somebody. i don't suppose the. gods just buy. for sound. bites. so since it will be so so i say no she brings mice in that would tend to buy them just. as a what the idea what that. meant numbers on so that. you know buy new things which. there's a need to. do it see the sudden and so when we should. do it's a typical high profit. but to get don't you think you. do
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see. that it is constantly changing. them all the. time. this is definitely the most professional of the factories visited. the fact that we're being taken through this water treatment facility is a really promising sign. you start out with incredibly yucky water and it goes through a progressive series of filters and other processes and eventually you end up with
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hopefully acceptably clean water. the coolest thing when the water is coming through the treatment facility some of the water comes out and dumps into this and they have been here in the factory and i said well they know the water treatment is working ok as long as the fish are still alive a little unfortunate for the fish because if something breaks maybe the fish die but it's clear to me that this would definitely be a factory to buy from up the one we visited. from the institute of public and environmental affairs module. thank you ladies and gentlemen i'm truly honored and humbled to be the first chinese citizen to receive the
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scole award was thank you i set up this institute of public on your bar medal affairs ip and our first project is to to butte a national water pollution database. though this records comes from the government sources the public can access the information by click on the locations on the map because people want to know you know who should be held responsible for such a bad what a pollution situation and so far we got some more than one hundred and ten thousand records of violations in our database. in april two thousand and ten we filed letters to twenty nine i.t.
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friends to check with them whether those polluting factories whether they are their suppliers. all of them responded except the one that is an apple. apple just give us one statement that is we have a long term policy not to disclose our supply chain. not to. my june contacted me and we began to work together to apply additional pressure to a company with headquarters here in the united states might join singled out a number of facilities that he believed were in apples the chain that it had a very heavy environmental impact in their locality and when he level of those charges apple was shocked and is sort of in denial that this type of
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problem to this extent could really exist in their supply chain. i think it's important to understand that this is not just about apple you know this is about the idea industry. they all share printed circuit board manufacturers they all share chip manufacturer is you know despite their audit protocols there is a lot more talk than walk on environmental impacts in the supply chain. you say to yourself how could they not know about any of these problems but you know it's it's always you ask and it's all you look for so if you're not there and you have a checklist of what you need and you need it now and that checklist does not include what's going on at the end of the pipe of your wastewater treatment plant it's actually conceivable that you know exactly where it's being made you just
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don't know exactly how it's being made and what the impact is. that's what's going on not just with apple but with all of these companies. forty years of operating the environmental protection agency in this country these are american based companies hard to believe. we still have this industry which is discharging so much waste not just normal ways hazardous waste. in just one supplier to generate more than one hundred thousand tons of hazardous waste in one year. how could we dispose stuff you know in a safe way so how much a time bomb this industry is gonna create. in
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electronics at this moment in time i believe we're in the dinosaur age. we're using too many resources too many raw materials and the life of a computer is a typically three to four years. for a small company in r. and. a mission is to choose a fair trade computer. in the early days i repaired this component levels on the computers and one of the boards . from the i noticed that there was huge amount of waste in the computer industry. so we started designing and building up to date range and reuse with computers. this is my father's environmental drill and all my trusty and just you know it's
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just it's just. how can you build a computer without plastic how could you build a computer without lead mercury p.v.c.'s brominated flame returns and all the other heavy metals. that was our gold the material we use is wood so this it's technology of one hundred years ago but it's perfectly good our computers will last seven to ten years because the home users none taken good people can repair and replace i'm never place in the memory you can extend the life of it by upgradability.
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today is these are major launch in europe. we've lots of invites and to people. we were awarded the world's first year people. for integration desktop computers it was the world's first ever achieve this award at that time i thought wow the the gates will open with orders so flooding here first that was not the case maybe a little bit of naive essay on my part it's hard out there like government agencies some people like that there is no room for environmental they are totally just bottom line. i'm looking at it now it's one little step at a time the what we need to do is work harder build more computers. get people to join us. americans talk
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a lot of gadgets every day. if we look at the three million or so tons of electronic waste the gets generated in the united states every year probably fifteen percent of that gets recycled. and some percent of that gets recycled in a responsible fashion. part . she says t.v. that you. get that idea of the wind.
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so sound happy that he. so. those who. have. seen me. use a male voice here that hasn't paid fabian to deal with the iraq. we think ok we'll send our you ways to china let them burn it let them have the pollution but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe. that pollution is getting lost into the atmosphere and coming right back to us. metals and metals and metal you know and it's there's no other form for it to convert to you can convert it from being in the soil to being in the water to being in the air but you still have a metal. in our work we fly
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through clouds and we sample the cloud droplets and we measure the chemistry of each one very fast as you're flying through a cloud there flashing as fast as you can imagine on a screen and we collect all that information and what we get is what's a chemical fingerprint. in california with getting rid of lead in gasoline we've reduced the amount of lead we have and so when lead shows up that is one of the tracers that we say this could be from elsewhere and we can trace it back in time and say you know four days ago this air was over asia. and you have more pollution and you have more aerosols those go into the cloud and if you have so many things they can't get big enough to fall and lead to rain. and it's giving you these extremes of either not enough water in some places and
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way too much water in other places. what happens if we push it too far. we'll start to see more of these extreme events things like flooding and hurricanes. these are what people often refer to as tipping points and not so that's what we're very concerned about happening. my attachment to my devices is more complicated now. it's hard to get excited about the next new model or a great knowing what they really cost to make. the industry in it's constant search for cheaper workers and land is moving on to new countries with few government safeguards or inspections.
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we all have a share in this problem. but we can use our voices and our buying power to demand real labor safety and greater environmental protections. the digital revolution has improved our lives in so many ways. we need to make sure it doesn't rob us of our health and our planet. how often can we recently use the word blizzard in april in the us or in canada not
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that often using but that is exactly what this massive cloud was now it's not quite as vicious as when it produced a visible the still cold enough in the north the us was a tight enough for it to be windy and snowy weather and then further south dakota tops back inside here that cold front is potentially tornadic as it moves across the southern states to northern florida georgia and eventually the carolinas and there's the snow talking back into the northern ohio valley so this is you know this is lingering winter rights or ontario as well at the same time on the pacific coast that cold front that line of green moves inland i think we'll see more snow produced here all the way down the californian rockies again you talk about middle of april talking about significant snow and chicago is it two degrees by this time still the north sea breeze down the plain states and right the way down to georgia a nice thirteen in atlanta the consequence that active cold front is seen further south as well although at the moment very typical is happening in the gulf of
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mexico all the mediterranean just north of the screen top of the screen that white cloud with there it is cheering sunday significant rain for western cuba and towards billie's and mexico. on counting the cost how to get ahead in digital advertising why the new mad men dislike regulation but like harvesting everything they can about the french president's big test plus why oil the ruble and i mean you were in focus this week counting the cost and i just get up. out of here i this is an opportunity to understand i mean a very different way where there before finally happens if you don't leave the.

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