Trafficking e-waste from Global North to Global South
5th October 2025 -- Gerry McGovern| Gerry McGovern
Every year, electronics become more wasteful, more designed for the dump. And to hide the problem, we in the Global North have found a classic way of behaving that so expresses the sheer hollowness of our civilization. We dump our toxic crap among the poor in the Global South, while advertising that we are helping… Read More »| Gerry McGovern
They call them “ships of doom”. As one country tightens up regulations, the e-waste exporters scour around looking for some weaker, even more “developing” country. When the Global North boasts that it has dematerialized, that it has reduced its CO2 and pollution, know that the waste, toxins, CO2 and a galaxy of other pollutants always… Read More »| Gerry McGovern
5th October 2025 -- Gerry McGovern| Gerry McGovern
In the West Bank in Palestine, children who live near where they burn the e-waste—much of which has come from Israel—are found to develop cancer at four times the rate of those living in other parts of the West Bank, according to research conducted by Yaakov Garb, a professor at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the… Read More »| Gerry McGovern
21st September 2025 -- Gerry McGovern| Gerry McGovern
Big Tech colonialism. Big Tech imperialism. The Global South is stripped of its metals at the cheapest of cheap prices to build the laptops and smartphones and e-toys consumed in the Global North. Mining poisons land, water, air, people, animals. If anyone complains, they get intimidated or shot. If the community gets better organized, the… Read More »| Gerry McGovern
Invisibility. Dematerialization. Outsourcing of harm. The chips are hiding in plain sight. In our toys, in our clothes, in our shoes, in every aspect of our lives. Invisible. And after ultra-short lives, the e-waste becomes even more invisible to the Global North consumer as it is dumped in the Global South to poison the poor… Read More »| Gerry McGovern
“Green” and “clean” energy is built on a vast dump of super-toxic batteries. “Renewable” energy is about as renewable as a rechargeable battery is renewable. The energy that the battery uses is renewable and may even come from a solar panel or wind turbine. The battery itself is non-renewable. It contains lots of non-renewable polluting… Read More »| Gerry McGovern
3rd August 2025 -- Gerry McGovern| Gerry McGovern
18th May 2025 -- Gerry McGovern| gerrymcgovern.com
