This article was originally published by Ethan Huff at Natural News.
The computer mouse is one of those things that probably does not come to mind when thinking about climate change, but to Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber, even that little device is too polluting to allow people to purchase it outright.
Instead, Faber would like to see Logitech customers opt for her new “forever mouse,” which they would have to pay a regular subscription fee in order to use, kind of like a car lease.
Faber, described as “a longtime executive with an extensive background in consumer goods at conglomerates like Unilever and Procter & Gamble,” told The Verge‘s “Decoder” podcast that her number-one priority moving forward is not to gouge customers with pointless subscription fees just because, but rather to “cut carbon emissions.”
“I’m a big believer that you have to make a few changes if you want to get, in our case, even better results and a little faster growth with the same margins – and not unimportantly, reduce that carbon footprint by 50 percent,” she said in the interview.
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When you need an excuse, just blame “climate change”
Notice the careful wording of the above quote from Faber, who makes it sound as though Logitech is doing wonderfully as it is and does not necessarily need to make its mouse products subscription-based.
According to Faber, Logitech simply wants to do its part to “cut carbon emissions” by charging its customers over and over and over again to use their computer mouses in perpetuity.
What Faber conveniently failed to reveal during her interview is the truth, of course. Like the rest of the consumer market, product sales are plummeting now that the Wuhan coronavirus (covid-19) is over (at
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