The High Tech Trashing of the Global South

2013 (Presenter Jim Puckett, Executive Director of the Basel Action Network & producer of the BAN video, “Exporting Harm”) - Electronic waste is ubiquitous and what happens to it raises one of the most fundamental questions of our age. E-waste represents a crisis in its own right, but at the same time is demonstrative of the challenges that we as global citizens and consumers face. Impacts on human rights and the environment result from how we trade, consume, and design the products that increasingly shape our lives. This presentation will dive into the cause of all pollution since the beginning of time, the impacts of mass consumption, and how our current trade rules and norms disproportionately burden the global south. Thoughts will be offered on how we as global citizens can better shape our world, one iPhone at a time. This lecture was recorded at "The Quest for Global Environmental Equity in an Increasingly Inequitable World," the Elizabeth Babbott Conant & Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Conference on the Environment on April 18, 19, and 20, 2013. https://www.conncoll.edu/academics/majors-departments-programs/majors-and-minors/goodwin-niering-center-for-the-environment/conferences/the-quest-for-global-environmental-equity/