In the Netherlands some form of recycling electronics is obligatory since 1998. So even Apple must have been doing it since then. I don't know what apple is doing themselves now but there are many companies which specialize in the dismantling of electronics.

Ahh, Yes, a court order. What if it was a court order in the Netherlands or Turkey or Egypt or China? Where is apple supposed to draw the line?

"These foundations are putting their money to far better use than the government would. They are doing the things that governments should be doing, but aren't."

Actually no. These "charities" fund a lot of health and social initiatives but the state invests in infrastructure, jobcreation, rule of law etc. Those make all the other stuff possible.
Besides that I prefer democracy to a situation where one person decides where a big part of societies money is spent on. Private charities often influence the spending of state money as described in this article : http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/11/27/are-charities-more-effective-than-government/vital-needs-dont-always-attract-donations

"Yes it is! more laws will stop them! Just like how speed laws stopped speeding, Drug laws stopped drugs, and there is zero prostitution cince they passed those laws against paying money for sex."

So what you are saying is that we are "defacto" living in anarchy since laws make no difference what so ever. Clearly nonsense: we can easily compare to historical periods or geographical regions where the rule of law was/is absent or arbitrarily applied.

Your whole message is a statement without any kind of backing...

"In that time the world population increased from about 680 million to 890 million and that's being very generous towards the amount of people that can be fed, clothed and housed without relying upon fossil fuels. "

Really?

A judge in the Netherlands ruled over a similar case against the Dutch state. The ruling was that the state was not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gases.
Dutch site so link is via Google translate:
  https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2015/06/24/rechter-staat-moet-broeikasgassen-sterk-terugdringen&usg=ALkJrhj2_gJc4cjcTdMsH5pGZjqwqIk-Qg

From the article : "As a two-dimensional crystal of carbon atoms, graphene is a basic building block of many carbon derivatives such as zero dimensional fullerene, one dimensional carbon nanotubes, and three dimensional graphite. "

How can a tube be one dimensional?

There are other values than direct profit. Environment for one, but also the benefits of faster transit and less road congestion. All harder and more abstract to monetize than direct profit but valuable none the less.

Sure, engineering, that could be the cause. However since there are plenty of 5" phones which are not glued shut and Apple has a history of viciously protecting access to their hardware that would not be my guess...

The "they will leave us". That is exactly the argument used in all liberal economies. And exactly what makes it possible for multinationals to hold western economies hostage.

Indian policy but also other protectionist policy within western countries proves that that kind of fear mongering is unsubstantiated, however effective it may be.

That distinction between church and religion is important. The church as an institution was a very wide economic and regulatory entity. Parts either stimulated or prosecuted science or certain findings. Religion however is a censor. Scientific findings are very likely to be interpreted within the boundaries of the religious dogma. So a church can facilitate science but religion may influence the findings.

However he who is without dogmas cast the first stone.

The idea of letting a arbitration committee in a foreign country (in this case the US) supersede the judicial system of a democratic nation which has evolved over more than a century is to absurd to contemplate. Corporate lobby is making it (ISDS) happen though. Europe is next.

Actually the Dutch taxi market is pretty open nowadays, with several thousand not affiliated taxis in Amsterdam only. But the Netherlands is a pretty regulated country. For driving a taxi for example you need a license (easily obtainable) and there are fixed tariff regulations. Obviously Uber drivers have no such license and don't comply with the tariff regulation. I don't know any democratic nation where an organization which actively organizes and supports activities which don't comply with the law is not seen as a criminal organization.
Doesn't mean that Uber won't be seen as a kind of emancipationary club somewhere down the line. But now...

If someone urges or pushes you to do something, you are still responsible for your own actions.

You may be unaware of this but lots of water used for fracking actually comes back up as part of the process. This is then transported and pumped into the ground elsewhere. The wells used for this are not as deep as the fracking sites. Hence the many quakes in Oklahoma.