Comments on: Greenpeace: HP stands for 'harmful products'

Demonstrating at HP headquarters, group calls for ban on brominated flame retardants.

[Hep Cat]

Somebody call the "Waah"mbulance

I appreciate efforts to make the technology sector more "green",
but frankly, groups like Greenpeace and Peta are making
enemies of the reasonable people they claim to be trying to
reach.

Tying up traffic, complaining about flame retardants, throwing
fake blood on people and making outrageous claims are not the
way to get Joe Consumer on your side - especially when the
protesters seem to be mostly comprised of wealthy
"trustafarians" with nothing better to do.

Cry me a river, Greenpeace. Go to work on some difficult and
arguably much more important problems, like poverty or
exurban creep?

[gerhard_schroeder]

Greenpeace Retardants

Where is their outrage over Chinese industry, which can be attributed to killing thousands and destroying the environment?

They give a free pass to the commies and go directly after the companies making America wealthy and successful.

Greenpeace will attack Wal-Mart next. This is how predictable the puppets have become. Its revenge for us not taking a big steamy dump on our GDP by signing Kyoto.

[lingsun]

Why are their idiotic statements being reported?

Why are their idiotic statements being reported?
Greenpeace is a joke. You can't take anything they say seriously. Nothing but outright lies, scare tactics, and intellectual fraud.

[gerhard_schroeder]

c|nets agenda is so transparent

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[lingsun]

I guess HP didn't make their contribution to Greenpeace

I guess HP didn't make a contribution to Greenpeace. It would be interesting to see if other computer companies donate to Greenpeace so those idiots don't criticize the. Similar to how companies contribute to Jesse Jackson's group PUSH so they don't get accused of racism. Just another example of extortion in action.

[akcrusier]

Greenpeace are hypocrites

Greenpeace can't even conform to the enviormental standards of a state like Alaska. They were caught violating the water quality regs when protesting a wolf hunt. It goes to show you just how hypocritical they really are.

[BeefByproduct]

Choose - home/office fire pollution OR retardants

This is literally a question of Choose Your Poison.

Just imagine how much pollution is released into the
environment when a home or office building burns because the
plastics in a product (PC, monitor, printer...) didn't have enough
fire retardants to keep a fire from spreading.

One alternative is to use more steel to enclose a fire hazard,
which has polution issues (mining, foundry emissions, heavier
devices expending more shipping fuel...).

This issue isn't worth the fight.

[Hep Cat]

Let's be honest, though

The vast majority of homes and offices don't burn down, but
they do contain fire retardants in fabric, computers, etc.

I'm just saying that your comment is a bit of a logical fallacy; you
seem to argue that every product sold would burn if not treated
with brominated retardant, resulting in vastly greater
environmental pollution.

That's not the case. Digital peripherals not treated with retardant
don't burn spontaneously. At the same time, I agree with you;
this isn't worth the fight - but it's pretty clear that this isn't
really about the brominated separators and retardants.

Greenpeace should focus on greater awareness of issues that
impinge on the health and quality of life of all creatures - not
just the easy targets that are within a BART or CalTrain ride of
Berkeley and San Francisco. Frankly, that's what this protest is
about.

[FuKHP]

screw HP

I agree GreenPeace should being concentrating
on other more important issues like what to do
with all those millions of "throw away HP printers" that break down after 6 months and are not cost effective to fix. Screw HP and its culture of planned obsolescence...screw HP
and its seriously overpriced ink cartridges...screw HP and its crappy drivers and
invasive software.....Oh yeah...I like GreenPeace.

[sanenazok]

watch out for that reef

Doh!

[gerhard_schroeder]

Credibility

I'm sorry, but these people have no credibility... they have demonstrated that they will join any Bush-hating festival, even while hundreds of thousands of gallons of Benzene are flowing through communist rivers.

Greenpeace = Socialists
Greenpeace != Scientists