Interview · moment 9 of 25
Climate Timeline, Kids, and Planned Obsolescence
from Bill Burr | The Tim Dillon Show #321 · #321
3 min
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Bill and Tim discuss whether climate change will get dangerous within decades, becoming more optimistic since having kids, and pivot into complaints about planned obsolescence in TVs and phone chargers designed to break.
- Tim's 30-year timeline for climate getting hairy is based on his observations driving around with the windows down.
- Having a kid forced him to become more positive about the future, otherwise he'd spiral into doom about what the world will be like for them.
- Planned obsolescence: TVs used to last 25 years and you could replace individual tubes, but now flat screens break constantly and you just throw them out.
- Phone manufacturers release a new charger every year that doesn't work with old phones, forcing people to buy new ones and discard the old ones.
- Corporations are willing to pay government fines for pollution because the fines are so much smaller than their profits.
- In Tim's lifetime, you went from being able to drink water directly from rivers to having to buy bottled water because corporations poisoned the water supply.
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