Conflict Minerals

[Prelauncher]

First, Bridge, this is not about you not buying jewelry. This is about our everyday gadgets, the phone in your pocket, the computer you read this on, the servers we're communicating through. A huge global market. And there's a whole lot more to this than poverty, if this was about third world poverty the miners and villagers would be grateful. And saying that you don't care about their suffering for you being able to send a text? Dude, that's cold. The people suffering in the mines don't care about your worries, you carrying their "baggage" will not improve their situation. But what is of importance is that we as consumers are aware of the situation. We don't need to change our lifestyle. Action is being made as we speak, microsoft, sony, motorola etc are making great progress figthing this in this very moment. But they won't care about this problem if we consumers don't care. Just by knowing that this is a problem we're fighting it. And saying that this is "normal" or that we should just stay away, with that atitude we might aswell abandon everything that we call civilization and embrase totall chaos.
"People are being opressed, raped and murdered here!"
"Don't worry, that stuff is normal."

Guys, I'm not calling for massive action here. I'm not saying that we should all stop with computers. I'm just raising awareness of something that is a problem and that should not be ignored.