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We should focus our efforts where the impact:effort ratio is the most favourable. This doesn't seem particularly productive.

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This is true of course, but we shouldn't discard any attempt to improve the situation, just because there are bigger fish to try.

Actually, we should, when the energy spent improving the situation could be spent on things with magnitude more impact.

The whole phone e-waste discussion is virtue signaling in its worst form.

It may well be, but the dismissal of it just because you could do more is even worse without action.

Sure, but not everyone has the same opportunities. So I'd say we should focus on the best we _can_ do personally.

It's better for me to focus on recycling my electronics than focusing on the ecological impact of the modern commercial satellites madness. Because I cannot do anything about Starlink and the likes, but I can recycle my phone.

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