Here Are Some Cell Phone Facts That You Won't Hear The Green Revolutionaries Scream About
Not Even Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, The Most Knowledgeable Teenager (who just turned 20) In The Whole Wide World
1)A cell phone contains north of 80% of the elements in the periodic table. The earth’s crust is 8% aluminum and 5% iron ore. Most of the rest of the elements (nickel is 0.0084%, copper is 0.006%, cobalt is 0.0025%) have way lower concentrations. At these levels you are better to talk in parts per million, so just move the decimal over four places. The rare earth metals are really low in both concentration and overall supply. That’s the yttrium and scandium that give you the nice bright colours on your cell phone screen. And how do you think we get these elements? Answer. Diesel. Diesel is the fuel in the big machines at mines. Diesel comes from oil.
2)A cell phone lasts a few years before you buy another. It seems to me that this lifecycle is getting shorter but the data I come across says it is about the same for the last ten years. Hmmmm? I need a reader out there to tell me the real answer. So make sure to get a nice plastic case to protect your phone to make it last longer. Oh. Plastic comes from an oil distillation column.
3)A cell phone is not engineered to be recycled. Most used cell phones sit in a drawer somewhere. In 20 years these phones in a drawer will be those phones in the landfill as it costs four times as much to recycle the metals from a cell phone as it does to just mine and refine.
So Greta, if you want the world to go back to the starving stone age (when we get rid of natural gas which gives us fertilizer) with your net zero bullsh*t, I would, at a bare minimum, expect you to go back to a plugged in rotary phone.
PS-And Greta, this is before we talk about you standing in a nice heated building with the Swedish snow storm outside while you use your cell phone. Don’t forget that the steel and concrete in that building come from oil.
PSS-Also Greta, I don’t believe the UNFCCC hijacked the IPCC. Not.