{"id":1535,"date":"2007-10-25T22:26:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T06:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/25\/why-cell-phones-kill-gorillas\/"},"modified":"2015-04-19T10:41:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T17:41:15","slug":"why-cell-phones-kill-gorillas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/why-cell-phones-kill-gorillas\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cell Phones Kill Gorillas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Burning Man, under the man there were a couple preachy signs. Here&#8217;s my favorite.<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/cell-phones-kill-gorrillas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/cell-phones-kill-gorrillas.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"cell-phones-kill-gorrillas.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"right\" height=\"200\" width=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry it&#8217;s hard to read. I lost my digital camera at the Albertsons in El Cerrito on my way to Burning Man so all I had was my emergency film camera.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was ludicrous at the time but it got me thinking a lot.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/polar-bears.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/polar-bears.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"polar-bears.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"left\" height=\"200\" width=\"135\" \/><\/a> The problem is: cell phones need a metal called tantalum to make their tiny capacitors, the largest supplies of tantalum are in the Democratic Republic of The Congo which is a fairly lawless place and gorillas and miners are treated poorly there. <\/p>\n<p>Read it for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Burning Man, under the man there were a couple preachy signs. Here&#8217;s my favorite. Sorry it&#8217;s hard to read. I lost my digital camera at the Albertsons in El Cerrito on my way to Burning Man so all I had was my emergency film camera. I thought it was ludicrous at the time but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}