Internet users are killing the planet
Posted: Sat 13 Jul 2019, 20:59:54
I've always maintained that just about everyone is releasing too much CO2 into the atmosphere, and the resultant global warming will eventually cause us some very big problems, and just possibly produce another mass extinction event (i.e. "kill the planet").
Here's more evidence of that idea....studies now show that huge amounts of CO2 are released into the atmosphere by the consumption of digital content on the internet.
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the numbers are stunning.....when you add up all the CO2 released by on-line internet users, it comes to 300 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year (resulting from energy consumption). Most of this is for people watching videos, with porn videos alone ‘emitting’ just under 100 million tonnes per year – nearly as much as Belgium and Kuwait.
...video-on-demand services such as Netflix or Amazon Prime generated the same volume of greenhouse gas emissions as the entire economy of Chile.
Total global CO2 emissions are ca. 33+ gigatons per year, so the internet now accounts for almost 1 percent of global CO2 emissions. Even more concerning, the internet continues to grow at a rapid rate and CO2 emissions from internet viewers also continue to rapidly grow. At a time when coal and oil and gas are under fire for their associated CO2 emissions, we can't ignore the rapidly increasing demand for energy from the internet, which didn't exist 25 years ago and now is reposnble for hundreds of tons CO2 emitted into the atmosphere each year.
Cheers!
Here's more evidence of that idea....studies now show that huge amounts of CO2 are released into the atmosphere by the consumption of digital content on the internet.
internet-video-porn-carbon-dioxide-emissions-research
the numbers are stunning.....when you add up all the CO2 released by on-line internet users, it comes to 300 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year (resulting from energy consumption). Most of this is for people watching videos, with porn videos alone ‘emitting’ just under 100 million tonnes per year – nearly as much as Belgium and Kuwait.
...video-on-demand services such as Netflix or Amazon Prime generated the same volume of greenhouse gas emissions as the entire economy of Chile.
Total global CO2 emissions are ca. 33+ gigatons per year, so the internet now accounts for almost 1 percent of global CO2 emissions. Even more concerning, the internet continues to grow at a rapid rate and CO2 emissions from internet viewers also continue to rapidly grow. At a time when coal and oil and gas are under fire for their associated CO2 emissions, we can't ignore the rapidly increasing demand for energy from the internet, which didn't exist 25 years ago and now is reposnble for hundreds of tons CO2 emitted into the atmosphere each year.
Cheers!