The Environmental Cost of Our Smartphone Culture

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 22, 2017

Director/producer Sue Willams and co-producer Hilary Klotz Steinman join us to discuss their documentary, “Death by Design: The Dirty Secret of Our Digital Addiction.” The film investigates the dark side of the electronics industry, and examines the environmental and health costs -- from deadly factories in China, to a polluted community in New York state, to the offices of Silicon Valley.

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