SRC- Socially Responsible Consumption
What a concept. AirPods gives us a Shakespearean tale that can be told with virtually any product or service substituted that ignores the TCE. True Cost to Earth. Take a gallon of gas. Really think it through. Make a list of the TCE. Start with the extraction in the Middle East and end up at the Mall in a 6000 lbs SUV. Include human costs. Unfairness of wage imbalance that takes place during imports. Carbon footprint of extraction, chemical cracking, refining, shipping on tankers that burn bunker oil and dump bilge water, trucking to gas stations, VOCs during every transfer, air pollution from burning, unnecessary usage caused by suppressed price and you begin to understand the TCE.
Save the trees!