Excess memes, photos and ‘reply all’ emails are bad for climate, finds study | Social media
https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/09/excess-memes-photos-and-reply-all-emails-are-bad-for-climate-finds-study
by GeraldKutney
Excess memes, photos and ‘reply all’ emails are bad for climate, finds study | Social media
https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/09/excess-memes-photos-and-reply-all-emails-are-bad-for-climate-finds-study
by GeraldKutney
3 comments
And people who post gifs as comments!
I think this is the activist ideological mess the politics has gotten into.
“YOU’RE USING THE INTERNET YOU’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM.”
There isn’t good outcomes here.
* nihilism
* skepticism
* doomerism
* doubt
People aren’t going to micro manage their habits like some hyper pious monk. It’s not going to make a difference if they did.
Stop dropping this all on the end users.
Why again this indirect way to point to the problem: fossil energy. Data centers(or almost anything else) wouldn’t be a problem if exclusively powered by solar, nuclear, wind, hydro, or geothermal energy. Unless our energy use was to grow to tens of times what it’s today, in which case the direct waste heat would start affecting the climate.