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When academic teams face contradictions between research focus and professional practices

My research team published a paper on e-waste in developing countries but when we presented it at conferences we flew internationally multiple times using devices that will be obsolete in two years and I brought this up once and everyone got defensive like I was attacking their careers.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Living the implications of your own expertise is proving more complicated than studying the problem from a distance.

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“Where Are You with E-waste and global justice?”

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