A British Scientist called David Attenborough told that Anyone who believes in infinite growth on a finite planet is either mad or an economist. He said, referring to the current ecological devastation.

Have you ever felt like were living through a nightmare of consumption? That you wish you could un-hook yourself and reconnect with a life that is somehow more real and vivid?.

Technology is wonderful, but it's no secret the cost behind them. The atmosphere is the most adversely affected and we are unable to gauge the impact in the medium and long term. Today we live in a time when there is little to no understanding of how the goods we consume and take for granted came into being. Without this we havent the knowledge to understand the true costs of our consumption, and the power take our action. As a result we have become disconnected from Earth- the origin of our health, wealth and all of the things we depend on.

We may see the true costs behind some of our most prized possessions- our electronic gadgets. Joining the dots between the stages of extraction, production, consumption and disposal, it reveals that, although our gadgets appear sleek and shiny, their appearance is misleading.

From the mining that causes huge ecological and social destruction, to the mountains of e-waste shipped around the planet and dumped, the lifecycles of our technology are strewn with unacceptable devastation and toxicity. Mining activities are set to triple worlwide by 2050. Mining is a major driver of landgrabbing. As the scale of the extractive industries increases, so do the social and ecological costs.

It is important to think about this nightmarish destruction, broadly driven by our obsessive pursuit of economic growth at all costs. Things do not have to be this way, we may forge new paths into the future. We must reconnect with Earth, reduce our consumption, revalue what really makes us happy and become part of the movement for an ecologically sane, and socially just economy that delivers fair tecnologies.

By the time they reach us, our gadgets are obsolete. We need to wake up to their true cost.