• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    European average carbon footprint for video streaming as producing 55g of CO₂e per hour. This CO₂e or carbon dioxide equivalent is a comparable measure of the potential effect of different greenhouse gases on the climate: 55g of CO₂e is 50 times more than audio streaming and the equivalent of microwaving four bags of popcorn

    What the fuck is this article? This is not helpful in any way. Yeah du-doy the thing that uses electricity “creates” carbon. How bout we remove fossil fuels from the grid then?

    1.1g per hour is ridiculously efficient. An average meal in the Western world is ~3Kg.

    • ɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      55g of CO₂e is 50 times more than audio streaming and the equivalent of microwaving four bags of popcorn

      How much is that in football fields?

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        6 months ago

        0.54% of a foosball table. Or 0.00000000000000042% of the length of two average elephants.

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      6 months ago

      It’s to put the blame on the consumer. Fuck these cooperate overlords. I’m hungry, when do we eat?

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      I’ll keep streaming and just eat less popcorn. I’ve been needing to cut back. I blow a kiss to the sky. I got your back, Mother Earth. I always check the resin identification codes before I recycle plastics, too.