Nuttin’ like tellin’ it how it is. Kudos to Piers Fawkes for taking a solid position against the sheer craziness that is C.E.S. I love when people just put their shit on the line and talk truth. So check it out here… It is quoted at length below…
Another year, another electronics and gadgets conference that is out of whack with modern concerns around sustainability and the planet. The C.E.S. is an arrogant refusal to admit to the problems the electronics industry has created in terms of material waste, poisonous polution, energy waste and over-consumption.
Our man on the ground, Scott Burns, tells us that although some brands there might be talking about sustainability or at at least the advancement in technology in allowing devices to perform more with less power, the show itself is anything but green (aside from the mass transit and buses).
Ironically, CES says that it is reducing its own impact on the environment wherever it can - but it doesn’t seem to register that it’s actually contributing to a greater problem than the number of nonrecycled water bottles left over at the end of the show.
The fact is that the CES is another gory broadcast of all the products we don’t really need and that we’ll have to replace very soon. It’s fueled by the blogs like Engadget and magazines like Wired that hype the consumption of this plastic-metal and ignore any modern notions towards sustainability.
Wired sadly continues to talk double standards - their magazines praise 100mpg cars, their retail projects sell 21mpg cars and their coverage of the CES with 50+ posts, Wired fails to review the show with any eco-concern that can often be found in the pages of its magazine.
In the New York Times, this column by Brad Stone is just pointless geek masturbation to get eyeballs to the page - rather than what is needed: an engaging debate about why the hell C.E.S. is allowed to continue as it is without significant criticism of the companies who showcase there.
And as for Engadget… well, it’s always been a geek-porn site feeding the frenzy - maybe it’s time it had a conscience?
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