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The dead sperm whale in the Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: NOAA  According to The Guardian ( Guardian.co.uk , Wednesday 24 October 2012 12.03 BST9 ), newly uncovered documents from the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – including gruesome photographs of a dead whale – are raising questions about the environmental cost of the disaster and the price tag the oil company will have to pay to set it right Documents, obtained by the campaign group Greenpeace under freedom of information provisions and made available to the Guardian, offer a rare glimpse into how many whales came into close contact with the gushing BP well during the oil spill. ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/24/whale-death-deepwater-oil-spill?intcmp=122 ).

China Labor Watch (CLW) announced that at 1:00PM on October 5 (Beijing time), a strike occurred at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory that, according to workers, involved three to four thousand production workers ( http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/news/new-433.html) . Accordind to CLW, in addition to demanding that workers work during the holiday, Foxconn raised overly strict demands on product quality without providing worker training for the corresponding skills. This led to workers turning out products that did not meet standards and ultimately put a tremendous amount of pressure on workers. Additionally, quality control inspectors fell into to conflicts with workers and were beat up multiple times by workers. Factory management turned a deaf ear to complaints about these conflicts and took no corrective measures. The result of both of these circumstances was a widespread work stoppage on the factory floor among workers and inspectors.

Millions of Iphones are every year discarded  (36,750,000 only in U.S. in 2011) in favor of the newer model. Harsh work conditions, high profits Read this. http://www.mbaonline.com/cost-of-iphone/