Random Thoughts

Want to help the climate crisis? Don't toss your old smartphone, fix it. The greenest smartphone is the one you already own. Smartphones seem so small and inconsequential, so unless you have studied the supply chains and realized everything that goes into creating them, you really just have no sense of how environmentally devastating these things are. The right-to-repair movement could help. Let the federal and state laws require device makers to release the tools, parts and repair manuals necessary to allow consumers to have their products fixed by independent shops or to do it themselves.