tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198904273734254988.post3976360053996045011..comments2024-02-06T02:55:38.691-05:00Comments on Eco-Libris blog: Can the iPad be "green" if it is manufactured in a sweatshop?Raz Godelnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16563394691076298729noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198904273734254988.post-81953168851687854792010-06-26T20:07:51.944-04:002010-06-26T20:07:51.944-04:00Dear Colleagues
Good question ... but not enough!...Dear Colleagues<br /><br />Good question ... but not enough! The global economy is now very interconnected and driven on the corporate side by profit and stockholder value and on the customer side by product and what it does for "me". The "green" question is academic and "feel good" but not really part of anything. <br /><br />We believe you have to start measuring the value impact on society to get traction for corporate change around profit and behavior change around me. What would actually happen if Apple manufactured its products at factories in North America or Europe ... what price would customers have to pay? ... what reduction in profits would Apple stockholders have to accept. <br /><br />When you expand this type of rethink to everything the US corporate decision makers have done for the last 20 years and you lose most of the profit gains reported by the corporate world and you have soaring cost push inflation in almost every product category. <br /><br />Would people in North America be better off without the low cost sweatshop strategy of outsourcing? Not an easy question to answer! Would sweatshop employees have been better off without massive outsourcing ... almost certainly not! These are big questions deserving robust debate. <br /><br />I like the question ... I think there is positive progress ... and that is an OK direction to be going!<br /><br />Peter Burgess<br />http://communityanalyticsca.blogspot.com/Peter Burgesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133615059640627095noreply@blogger.com