https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/cheap-computers-and-conflict-minerals/2012/06/08 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/cheap-computers-and-conflict-minerals/2012/06/08/comment-page-1#comment-491916 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:54:27 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24307#comment-491916 Good question. But do you know the ethical policies of your internet service provider? Your power supplier? Your web host? Their power supplier? My Telco? My power supplier? All those were implicated in your making this post and my reading it. In a complex, networked society we CANNOT track the consequences of actions – at individual, small organisational, or even corporate level. Raspberry Pi, as a very small, barebones computer (no keyboard, screen, mouse, or touch input (you must repurpose ones you already have to hand to use it) Is probably the single best example if low impact computing available (though search for the Zero-Dollar Laptop for another) and it has an educational remit designed, through its low cost, to address inequality. So using it as a target for your concerns seems a little inappropriate and perhaps self-defeating. Three possible responses. (1) We accept that the framework in which we live makes moral choices impossible. (2) We bring up the issues of transparency and materials throughput at a transnational, political level and lobby for structural change. (3) In our own consumption choices we seek to minimise our impacts by simply buying and using less.

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