The price of "free"

When you are told take this new cell phone to replace your still working one...and you say why not its cheap or free... Remember the price of this choice.

Beyond green issues...remember that the coltan(columbite-tantalite) that is used in the cell phone most probably comes from the East part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and it is the labor of kids taken in by warlords that is used to mine this. You are financing a warlords that are killing kids in mines and battlefields there.


Remember you have a choice to keep using a still working phone or you can get a fancy new phone...you have a choice whenever you get "free' options and gifts....

Yes you have a choice that may be condemning somebody somewhere else.