Well, yes, isn't this the entire point of trying to do something about climate change? We're going to change the environment we depend on for food + survival and possibly make our own species extinct through our own actions. I think of it in a similar sense as a yeast consuming sugar in a bottle during fermentation while producing alcohol as a byproduct. At some point the yeast has produced enough alcohol that it can no longer survive in its environment and dies off! Then we have beer.
Climate change wasn't a thing
220+ years ago when the world population was less than 1 billion.
Fast forward to
Nov 2022 and we breached 8 billion.
What changed? 7+ billion people are alive today. That materially contributes to climate change.
Top 20% of that population have nearly complete set of consumer electronics from smartphones, laptops, wearables, tablets, desktops without PCIe slots, desktops with PCIe slots, refrigerators, electric fans, ACs, etc.
Now compassionate persons want the bottom 80% to level up their standard of living to those of the top 20% and that would be catastrophic to climate change. The carbon footprint of the haves being applied to 4x more people worldwide that compromise the bottom 80%?
When you're that poor that malnutrition that leads to physical and mental stunting (low IQ) is part of daily life you will not give a hoot that becoming as rich as any Apple user will cause more cliamte change.
To quantify "poor" would be a person earning ~$1.00/hr vs anyone earning ~$15.00/hr regardless of cost of living. Because those electronics, cars, etc will largely cost similarly worldwide due to BoM.
To put it in another way the UK, a rich nation, contributes to 1% of global greenhouse gasses that causes climate change. If by chance the archipelago were to sink into the Atlantic ocean then their contribution to greenhouse gasses would be -1%.
If you want to materially impact climate change encourage people from poor nations to have the same fertility rate as people from rich nations. It being a 2 or less birth per mother instead of 2-4 or more per mother.
Hopefully by year 2240s we'll be back to 1 billion people worldwide.
Mind you I live in a country that gets most frequently hit by super typhoons with highest wind speeds of 315 km/h (196mph).
So I am most impacted by it.
I would LOVE an iPhone that could be plugged into a monitor to run full OSX. Call me when Apple finally decides to make such a device, since they haven't shown any interest yet...
Me too. I could imagine the a I/O port selection on Thunderbolt 5 80Gb/s display like this to dock that Thunderbolt 5 80Gb/s iPhone.
It likely will never occur from Apple as it would cannibalize their Mac business.
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