Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
In the Sichuan province of China, there is an abundance of orchards but no bees. Thousands of people are hired to climb fruit trees and hand-pollinate the flowers with small brushes because natural pollinators like bees have been killed by pesticides
Jed Fuhrman, holder of the McCulloch-Crosby Chair in Marine Biology at USC College (via climateadaptation)
The New York Times has a clever and long feature article explaining why Apple (and other firms) manufacture in China for a host of reasons of which low wages may be a relatively small portion.
As recently as 2002, most of Apple’s products were manufactured in the USA. What happened? Why is nearly everything, from Macs to iPhones, made in China now?
