Comment on China's rare earth export restrictions threaten global chipmaking supply chains
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good. Stop mining this and leave it alone.
Comment on China's rare earth export restrictions threaten global chipmaking supply chains
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good. Stop mining this and leave it alone.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are you willing to give up all the products that need these? And all the services you consume that use these?
Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Yes.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So no modern electronics or computers then? So back to maybe basic transistors at best? You’re cool with that?
Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
TIL a steady transfer of rare earth metals from China is necessary for all of the computers of today to continue working. Is it like a subscription. Rare earth pass, subscribe now.
Otherwise, ya, hermit life FTW
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes. We obviously aren’t responsible enough to handle these devices as it is now. We are eroding our planet of its life by causing drastic changes to our climate, caused by burning up massive amounts of fossil fuels to power our “AI”. This is gross and detestable, and we should reverse course immediately until we can find better alternatives to handle semiconductor manufacturing processes.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What you’re suggesting is “pennywise and pound foolish” if your goal is CO2 reduction. Semiconductors and Rare Earth metals are required for our best weapons against CO2 emissions, those being wind turbines and PV solar panels.
Energy demands are far FAR larger than the minuscule (by comparison to other energy users) AI data center waste.
Fossil fuel lovers will back you 100% on reduction of semiconductors as it means a lock-in for electricity generation to mostly fossil fuels.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am not going to lie, i just don’t have the energy to put together all the research that has been done on the energy consumption of AI neural networks for you. They are consuming more energy entire States in the USA use. Then theres cryptocurrency. Then there is the fact that we have global storefronts, distributers, resellers, supermarkets, and food production that is designed around creating hyper capitalist worlds of consumerism that only exists because it is so god damn easy to add to cart and have one of everything.
You will never need one of everything. We don’t need to produce just to produce. We aren’t sharing. We are hoarding. We are stashing. Products are assembled and put on store shelves at such an unsustainable rate that there isn’t enough time or energy to figure out how to properly reuse or recycle them or their byproducts. The lowest quality, most pollutive products pile up. They pile up in landfills, along roads, and in oceans. Hell, there are microplastics in the most remote regions planet earth. Its filthy and disgusting. You cant even find clean water in the wild anymore.
All because we have a way to tap 3 buttons and get delivered something new to consume.
Hyper fucking capitalism only becomes more hyper thanks to rare earth metals (which also are just tossed in the trash once their use is up).