"We're sitting here with a wealth of information about products which themselves are much more complex, and we're able to track back the products and their components further than we've been able to trace them back before," says Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Rosa University.
But for consumers eager to act on this new knowledge, two problems emerge.
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To the extent that my phone is in part funding the war in the Congo, I want to play a part in enacting change”
Stephani Jones Student The first is that the large American companies which sell the finished product do not deal with the mines directly.
"We're sitting here with a wealth of information about products which themselves are much more complex, and we're able to track back the products and their components further than we've been able to trace them back before," says Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Rosa University.
ReplyDeleteBut for consumers eager to act on this new knowledge, two problems emerge.
Continue reading the main story
“
Start Quote
To the extent that my phone is in part funding the war in the Congo, I want to play a part in enacting change”
Stephani Jones
Student
The first is that the large American companies which sell the finished product do not deal with the mines directly.