Apple versus Greenpeace
p2pnet.net News:- “We love Apple,” says Greenpeace. “Apple knows more about ‘clean’ design than anybody, right? So why do Macs, iPods, iBooks and the rest of their product range contain hazardous substances that other companies have abandoned? A cutting edge company shouldn’t be cutting lives short by exposing children in China and India to dangerous chemicals.”
But, “Jobs poked fun at Greenpeace’s criticism of the company during a slideshow when launching the new iPhone,” says electricnews.net. He said the lobby group should ‘get out of the computer business [and] go save some whales’.”
This was at the recent Expo when Jobs illegally, according to Cisco, unveiled the Apple ?Phone, claiming it’s eco-friendly.
However, he wasn’t “poking fun”. Greenpeace accuses Apple of producing products which are dangerously toxic and that was Jobs using the MacGlitz event to tell Greenpeace where to go.
“The environmentalist group claims Apple is lagging behind other electronics companies, who have made commitments to ‘green’ their products” says the story, and to drive their point home, staged a demo outside the event.
Greenpeace activists, “projected giant images of the contaminated Asian scrapyards where the group claims many electronic products, including those made by Apple, end up,” says electricnews.net. “The activists projected images onto a wall above an Apple retail outlet of electronics being melted down, taken apart and apparently releasing toxic chemicals.”
But that’s not the end of it and now Greenpeace has a Green my Apple Jobs keynote address on YouTube.
Check it out here.
Also See:
electricnews.net – Apple has toxic core: Greenpeace , January 15, 2007
Apple ?Phone – Cisco iPhone claim looking shaky, January 13, 2007
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