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
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
Like all new tech innovations, the initial design focus for wind turbines was not on reuse or recyclability. “Made from fibreglass-reinforced polymer and coated with epoxy resins, turbine blades are designed to maximise aerodynamicism whilst remaining light enough to minimise structural stress and stiff enough to achieve efficient wind capture,” Eve Thomas wrote for Power… Read More »| Gerry McGovern
3rd August 2025 -- Gerry McGovern| Gerry McGovern
To maximize profit, solar panels prefer very large, flat open spaces with lots of sun. Deserts seem perfect. “It might look like a barren wilderness, but this stretch of the Mojave is a rich and fragile habitat for endangered species and home to thousand-year-old carbon-capturing woodlands and ancient Indigenous cultural sites,” Oliver Wainwright wrote for… Read More »| Gerry McGovern
18th May 2025 -- Gerry McGovern| gerrymcgovern.com
