Apple machines use plastic. Plastic is derived from petrochemicals. Petrochemicals are created by ExxonMobil (and other oil companies).
We may not like oil companies because they are greedy, capitalistic assholes that manipulate the system to their benefit. But disregarding the impact plastics and polymers, most of which are derived from petrochemicals, would be extremely naive. Try to imagine modern life without plastic. Just look around whatever room you are in and notice how many objects use plastic. And that is just in the consumer space of an average room. Imagine all the industrial and manufacturing processes/parts that use plastic.
Further more, how would you get your Apple (and non-apple) products without oil? Like or dislike, we have to accept that the current energy paradigm has created much of the wealth in the world today.
Though we look at oil as a bad product, so was the newton, but it served a purpose. The current product of oil companies might not end up being the last. I suspect in 100 years we may see an ExxonMobile providing clean efficient energy from an infrastructure they were able to develop because of the vast trillions they made in the days of oil.
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Apple machines use plastic. Plastic is derived from petrochemicals. Petrochemicals are created by ExxonMobil (and other oil companies).
We may not like oil companies because they are greedy, capitalistic assholes that manipulate the system to their benefit. But disregarding the impact plastics and polymers, most of which are derived from petrochemicals, would be extremely naive. Try to imagine modern life without plastic. Just look around whatever room you are in and notice how many objects use plastic. And that is just in the consumer space of an average room. Imagine all the industrial and manufacturing processes/parts that use plastic.
Further more, how would you get your Apple (and non-apple) products without oil? Like or dislike, we have to accept that the current energy paradigm has created much of the wealth in the world today.
Though we look at oil as a bad product, so was the newton, but it served a purpose. The current product of oil companies might not end up being the last. I suspect in 100 years we may see an ExxonMobile providing clean efficient energy from an infrastructure they were able to develop because of the vast trillions they made in the days of oil.