White Raven
Working on The Mysterious Meteorite
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When you think of sustainable phones, do you think, "Oh! This phone is made of recycled glass! I love this phone company!!!"
Sustainability usually means the well being of the enviroment.
When you hear environment, do you think of people as part of it? Do you feel connected to settings around you? A part of it? If you do, hear this.
Thousands of Chinese people, are being treated for leukemia in hospitals with basically nothing to spice up their lives. Most of these people with leukemia have been benzene poisoned. As one of the millions of Chinese people who are lucky enough to grow up in Canada, where benzene in industries is banned, I feel that I have to raise awareness in as many places possible.
Benzene is a type of hydrocarbon, made up of hydrogen and carbon atoms, composed like this:
Banned in most first world countries, it is linked to leukemia, a type of blood or bone marrow cancer. Unfortunately, in China, where 50% of phones are made, it is still legal. If you look around you the next time you go outside, pretty much every adult has a phone. 50% of that is still alot. Benzene in the electronics industries is used for polishing
Although we can't really make the affected people's lives better in the hospital without giving up millions of dollars, we can prevent the people from actually getting this type of cancer.
All those phone companies you thought were too rich to be feeding off lives of young, hip people, actually do, well, some of them anyways. I think that one of these companies is Apple, because it says on the boxes, that it is assembled in China. Don't get me wrong, I love my phone. I am not asking you to boycott all phones assembled in China. But to raise the awareness of this industrial way.
The majority of workers in the industry are from places not unlike the village where my mom grew up, but more poorer. They are young people, who thought they will be helping the family by getting this ill fated job.
The sad reality is that their new jobs are back breaking and hazardous. The hazard? Benzene tainted screen polishes. They work most of the time they are awake. They only have one day free a month
The life of the workers are expendable. Most don't last more than a few weeks without health issues, the luckiest two months. And with so many people in China the sickest are replaced almost immediately. The workers don't even have insurance.
When the workers are fired, they usually are poisoned with chemicals, with health issues, most likely leukemia from benzene poisoning. The average victim is around 25.
Of the thousands, only a handful of people won compensations through months of legal work. They have done the exact opposite of what they intended to do, to earn more money for their family. Now, they require money to treat their illnesses. And the family is even poorer.
There is a documentary on this issue. I hope you can take 10 minutes of your day to watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns-kJ5Podjw
Please share the video to your friends, together, we can stop companies from using hazardous chemicals in industries that do not give training.
What do you think of this issue? How do you think we can stop it? Discuss.
Sustainability usually means the well being of the enviroment.
When you hear environment, do you think of people as part of it? Do you feel connected to settings around you? A part of it? If you do, hear this.
Thousands of Chinese people, are being treated for leukemia in hospitals with basically nothing to spice up their lives. Most of these people with leukemia have been benzene poisoned. As one of the millions of Chinese people who are lucky enough to grow up in Canada, where benzene in industries is banned, I feel that I have to raise awareness in as many places possible.
Benzene is a type of hydrocarbon, made up of hydrogen and carbon atoms, composed like this:
Banned in most first world countries, it is linked to leukemia, a type of blood or bone marrow cancer. Unfortunately, in China, where 50% of phones are made, it is still legal. If you look around you the next time you go outside, pretty much every adult has a phone. 50% of that is still alot. Benzene in the electronics industries is used for polishing
Although we can't really make the affected people's lives better in the hospital without giving up millions of dollars, we can prevent the people from actually getting this type of cancer.
All those phone companies you thought were too rich to be feeding off lives of young, hip people, actually do, well, some of them anyways. I think that one of these companies is Apple, because it says on the boxes, that it is assembled in China. Don't get me wrong, I love my phone. I am not asking you to boycott all phones assembled in China. But to raise the awareness of this industrial way.
The majority of workers in the industry are from places not unlike the village where my mom grew up, but more poorer. They are young people, who thought they will be helping the family by getting this ill fated job.
The sad reality is that their new jobs are back breaking and hazardous. The hazard? Benzene tainted screen polishes. They work most of the time they are awake. They only have one day free a month
The life of the workers are expendable. Most don't last more than a few weeks without health issues, the luckiest two months. And with so many people in China the sickest are replaced almost immediately. The workers don't even have insurance.
When the workers are fired, they usually are poisoned with chemicals, with health issues, most likely leukemia from benzene poisoning. The average victim is around 25.
Of the thousands, only a handful of people won compensations through months of legal work. They have done the exact opposite of what they intended to do, to earn more money for their family. Now, they require money to treat their illnesses. And the family is even poorer.
There is a documentary on this issue. I hope you can take 10 minutes of your day to watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns-kJ5Podjw
Please share the video to your friends, together, we can stop companies from using hazardous chemicals in industries that do not give training.
What do you think of this issue? How do you think we can stop it? Discuss.