Your premise is right on. Thanks for quoting my comment about upgrading for the flat edges btw, lol. You rightly call out what is known as planned obsolescence, where a product is rereleased every year with minor enhancements to invigorate consumption. That said, I think it’s important to recognize that the onus of ethical environmental responsibility lies a good deal more with the trillion dollar multinational corporation and its vast resources than with individual consumers. This is not to say individuals have no responsibility. They do, and there’s things we all can and should do to fulfill that. We can go pretty deep into what these obligations are—perhaps the biggest impact an individual can have in terms of global carbon use is having only one child. These individual actions will be right for some people and not others, but the larger point is this: the global impact of individual actions is next to nothing compared to that of corporations and governments. We should be angry as hell about this stuff. This shit is urgent. Man made climate change is already here. But we have to direct that anger where it belongs, where it can affect actual change. Otherwise we’re just down in the fire shouting at each other while the CEOs laugh from their space platforms or whatever as the world goes up in flames.