Daniel Eran Dilger and The Macalope call bullshit on Climate Counts’ sensationalist report that singles out Apple for “not yet taking meaningful action.” Dilger hits it home by asking:
Is crafting reams of policy statements “meaningful action?” Are Apple’s really meaningful, industry leading actions irrelevant because they aren’t always publicly advertised? Further, do the companies Climate Counts recommends to consumers over Apple actually follow their policy statements? And do their actual actions count for anything?
The reason for Apple’s low score? A lack of publicly available information. The Macalope takes a swing and a hit at this one:
The Macalope doesn’t know about you, but when he hears Apple is to be avoided for its poor environmental record, he wants to see some pictures of indigenous people being forced to eat old iPod batteries. He doesn’t want to see spreadsheet columns full of “information not available”.