I'm not sure if you know this, but dismissing anyone who disagrees with you as having fallen for an ad campaign isn't a particularly persuasive rhetorical tactic.
Reminder that this dude wrote this in his essay:
Plus you get to be smug about being green.
Well, you get the greetings of smug people. Also I don't care about rhetorical. Better speakers than me already talked to you all before and they failed to convince you of anything. So you can imagine how much I don't care about being persuasive or rhetorical. I care about facts.
But that aside, a smartphone someone buys every few years is a drop in the bucket for someone's individual contribution to climate change compared to driving, flying, living in inefficient low-density environments, eating pork or beef, or a host of other disproportionate activities. This just comes off as moralizing for its own sake.
Liar, the digital emits more CO2 than aviation.
This just comes off as moralizing for its own sake.
You are a bloody liar or ignorant. It took you like 30 sec to write your rant and spread some lies. But it took me way more time to find the source to debunk your crap. Well, I guess that's what it is to be a green smug.
I don't post the sources, you won't read them anyway.