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by David J. Littleboy on March 3rd, 2013 at 08:00
I used to have a gig translating an annual corporate social responsibility (CSR: there’s even an acronym for it) report put out by a large Japanese semiconductor manufacturer. In my corner of the universe for a while, I was already at xkcd’s 2061 “sustainability” level. Fortunately, I’ve moved on to other things.