Excess memes and ‘reply all’ emails are bad for climate, researcher warns

The Guardian ^ | Fri 9 Aug 2024 14.20 EDT | Helena Horton

[BenLurkin]

Emphasis added

[BenLurkin]

“All your cloud are belong to us.”

[rfp1234]

Internet is bad for climate! Rescind Albert Gore Jr.’s Nobel Prizes!

[Leaning Right]

I mentioned this to my cat, Mr. Whiskers. I told him that memes - including cat memes - are bad for the environment. His reply to the researchers:

Mr. Whiskers is not one to pull his punches.

[clearcarbon]

“I really started a couple of years ago, it was about trying to understand the negative environmental impact that digital data might have,” he said. “And at the top of it might be quite an easy question to answer, but it turns out actually, it’s a whole lot more complex. But absolutely, data does have a negative environmental impact.”

This is clearly a job for Winston Smith.

[Da Coyote]

All your idiocies are belong to us.
Signed, the left.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Where’s MY cloud? Did Chameleon find her cloud?

[rey]

I’d have to say this article is a waste consuming power and space and hence isn’t very green.

[mewzilla]

Well, since they mentioned it...

The British are coming

And is it just me, or is this the same gent from a while back...

black market chicken eggs

[Nateman]

Silly. I keep copies of my data on thumb drives. It sits there without any need for power.

[BenLurkin]

What a treasure trove for future historians; a comprehensive record of what civilization was like in the final decades before the time of the Long Darkness.

[stars & stripes forever]

Interesting that porn isn’t bad for climate.

[bigbob]

I like Mr. Whisker’s attitude. We need more cats like him!

[posterchild]

I can haz cheeseburger takes more energy than purdue grill LOX video, or ‘raggot the gerbil rocket’ or ‘ground slothe with mange apple talk’ or any of the other early memes I recall. Is Bill Gates really going to give me big money if I forward this to 10 people I know? John (served in Viet Nam) Kerry’s Scaramouche uses more energy.

[Jeff Chandler]

Hey! You! Get offa my cloud.

[BenLurkin]

Nice

[Alas Babylon!]

Well, human activity is bad for the climate I’m sure.

Especially researchers and professors at universities. They should all commit suicide and the universities closed—for the good of the climate and environment.

[WKUHilltopper]

So all those “I have no idea what you’re talking about’ so here’s a rabbit with a pancake on his head” memes are gonna cook the planet? OK, got it.

[No name given]

That tells us all we need to know about their priorities.

[No name given]

Well said.