You’d have to wonder how much CO2 a single blog post or article emits in greenhouse gases. Despite the fact that we don’t print stuff by being online we still contribute to greenhouse emissions. So how much is acceptable and what can be done to counteract this.
The following is an extract from CNN:
Now, depending on how quickly you read, around 80, perhaps even 100 milligrams of C02 have been released. And in the several minutes it will take you to get to the end of this story, the number of milligrams of greenhouse gas emitted could be several thousand, if not more.
This may not seem like a lot: “But in aggregate, if you consider all the people visiting a web site and then all the seconds that each of them spends on it, it turns out to be a large number,” says Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross, an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University who studies the environmental impact of computing.
Wissner-Gross estimates every second someone spends browsing a simple web site generates roughly 20 milligrams of C02. Whether downloading a song, sending an email or streaming a video, almost every single activity that takes place in the virtual environment has an impact on the real one.
As you can see, we can make a difference by paying attention to these details, it will be worth our while and that of our kids.
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