Regarding the environment, I wonder when — more likely IF — anyone will ever get serious about planned obsolescence. This causes more environmental damage than most other environmental sins. Everything from raw materials acquisition/mining to factory pollution to transportation pollution to premature end-of-life dumping are all a result of planned obsolescence and the marketing machine that fools people into following trends and fashions. On top of the environmental damage, there is the financial damage done to the average consumer, too.
Yes, addressing this would severely damage the economy as we know it, but perhaps we ought to be looking at alternative ways of managing our resources and economy.
