Cut back on email if you want to fight global warming

[Counselor706]

(Bloomberg) -- Everyone has seen the warning. At the bottom of the email, it says: “Please consider the environment before printing.” But for those who care about global warming, you might want to consider not writing so many emails in the first place.

More and more, people rely on their electronic mailboxes as a life organizer. Old emails, photos, and files from years past sit undisturbed, awaiting your search for a name, lost address, or maybe a photo of an old boyfriend. The problem is that all those messages require energy to preserve them. And despite the tech industry’s focus on renewables, the advent of streaming and artificial intelligence is only accelerating the amount of fossil fuels burned to keep data servers up, running, and cool.

Right now, data centers consume about 2% of the world’s electricity, but that’s expected to reach 8% by 2030. Moreover, only about 6% of all data ever created is in use today, according to research from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. That means that 94% is sitting in a vast “cyber landfill,” albeit one with a massive carbon footprint.

“It’s costing us the equivalent of maintaining the airline industry for data we don’t even use,” says Andrew Choi, a senior research analyst at Parnassus Investments, a $27 billion environmental, social, and governance firm in San Francisco.

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[trysail]

cut-back-on-email-if-you-want-to-fight-climate-change

Pretty damn funny.


Bloomberg (and the rest of their brethren in the gullible, complicit media) has done nothing but get more and more shrill about their adamant superstitious belief in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming ("CAGW").


I've had plenty of chuckles today as NPR spent 55 minutes of its precious air time wailing about the unfortunate death of Kobe Bryant (while simultaneously ignoring the fact that Bryant, similar to the evangelistic hypocrite Gore, had a carbon footprint approximating that of several small countries).

In the next breath, NPR reported that:

Hopi Tribal Members Face Lack Of Reliable, Affordable Fuel

January 27, 20205:05 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition

by Melissa Sevigny

Many are cheering the closure of a giant coal strip mine in Arizona, but thousands of Native Americans who burn coal for heat are scrambling. Alternative heat sources are scarce and expensive...​

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[von_Bismarck]

Pretty damn funny.


Bloomberg (and the rest of their brethren in the gullible, complicit media) has done nothing but get more and more shrill about their adamant superstitious belief in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming ("CAGW").


I've had plenty of chuckles today as NPR spent 55 minutes of its precious air time wailing about the unfortunate death of Kobe Bryant (while simultaneously ignoring the fact that Bryant, similar to the evangelistic hypocrite Gore, had a carbon footprint approximating that of several small countries).

In the next breath, NPR reported that:

Hopi Tribal Members Face Lack Of Reliable, Affordable Fuel

January 27, 20205:05 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition

by Melissa Sevigny

Many are cheering the closure of a giant coal strip mine in Arizona, but thousands of Native Americans who burn coal for heat are scrambling. Alternative heat sources are scarce and expensive...​

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^ This shill and paid commenter apparently never figured out that real markets consist of competing interests and values.

 

[thør]

In the next breath, NPR reported that:

Hopi Tribal Members Face Lack Of Reliable, Affordable Fuel

January 27, 20205:05 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition

by Melissa Sevigny

Many are cheering the closure of a giant coal strip mine in Arizona, but thousands of Native Americans who burn coal for heat are scrambling. Alternative heat sources are scarce and expensive...​

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That story has been cycling on NPR since at least late last week.

 

[trysail]

That story has been cycling on NPR since at least late last week.

The KNAU-originated report on the actual physical danger and hardship for Hopi tribal members aired on today's "Morning Edition" ( https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/799925328/hopi-tribal-members-face-lack-of-reliable-affordable-fuel ) is dramatically different from the earlier KJZZ-originated report on the closure ( https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/7952...ing-for-income-after-coal-power-plant-closure ).


NPR has yet to post the transcript of today's report.


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[thør]

The KNAU-originated report on the actual physical danger and hardship for Hopi tribal members aired on today's "Morning Edition" ( https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/799925328/hopi-tribal-members-face-lack-of-reliable-affordable-fuel ) is dramatically different from the earlier KJZZ-originated report on the closure ( https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/7952...ing-for-income-after-coal-power-plant-closure ).


NPR has yet to post the transcript of today's report.


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I just listen to the radio when in the car.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

I'll gladly cut back on email. I hate that shit. It's not secure, it will ALWAYS come back to haunt you and some people let that shit sit around until they get busted and I can't have that. Be easier if people used encryption more but it's a hassle that some folks don't want. Then they bitch cuz I won't do something. Fuck off with your bullshit.
So yeah, no email.