Posted on 03/18/2025 9:24:48 AM PDT by dynachrome
The use of information technology (IT) has significant environmental and social impacts, including human mortality from climate change. One striking example is the carbon emissions and impacts associated with digital communication.
To quantify the human cost of carbon-emitting technology, researchers use the 1,000-ton rule that estimates that for every 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, one person dies prematurely.
This rule is derived from the following calculation: burning one trillion ton of fossil carbon is likely to cause 2 C of anthropogenic global warming, which in turn is likely to cause about one billion premature deaths spread over the next century.
This theory can be used as a decision-making framework for policymakers to compare the value of an activity to the cost of that activity in human lives.
It’s also what I used in my recent study that analyzed how additional information in email signatures contributes to climate-related deaths in Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconversation.com ...
If not satire, insanity is spreading.
Just for that, I’m adding a second email signature...
windows update is now carbon aware ,LOL
American Indians used smoke signals. What was their climate change impact?
It looks like AI is attempting some humor.
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Can you imagine the “Climbit Crisis” in those days? Indian smoke signals and buffalo flatulence chokin’ the atmosphere to death. It’s a miracle we still have an ozone layer.
Not as much as when the College of Cardinals does it when they elect a Pope. Indigenous is always less polluting than European.
Bttt
Hahahahaha! Now, now...we don’t want the liberal heads to blow off...their worship of the “Noble Savages” as Rousseau called them might need to be re-examined!
As if they would do that...:)
“It looks like AI is attempting some humor.”
Speaking of AI and carbon footprint... If footprint is true then the carbon footprint of emails is minuscule compared to what the footprint of AI is going to be.
Interesting that those megacorporations who scream about Climate change are the ones absolutely fine with enslaving the world with the huge carbon footprint of AI.
So paper is bad and IT is bad.
These are the tools that say humans are a scourge on the earth and most of us should die in order for “Mother Earth” to recover. They can live though. It’s just the rest of us honkeys.
lol no way am I clicking on this ‘The Conversation’ site...no telling what kind of DUMP-style kookiness you might not be able to unsee!
You replied, Grandma died.
The author and ‘the conversation’ are on X. It’s worse than I thought.
So get in your cars, people, and deliver your message face to face. Or FedEx it.
Oh, winner!
Tell Gen Z leftists that Earth is being murdered by cell phones and social media.
Then wait for them to give up their cell phones and social media.
And wait...
Yes in person signing on paper, fax, mailing much better😂
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