How streaming music could be harming the planet
Once vinyl or a CD is purchased, it can be played over and over again, the only carbon cost coming from running the record player. However, if we listen to our streamed music using a hi-fi sound system it's estimated to use 107 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, costing about £15.00 to run. A CD player uses 34.7 kilowatt hours a year and costs £5 to run.
Solution: Use a smartphone or laptop with headphones unless you are playing music for guests. Download the songs you play repeatedly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:51PM (1 child)
Those 4 steps are so ridiculous that I can only imagine it is from a Libertrollian.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @09:01PM
The list hits all the important points that stakeholders require for an idea to save us from climate change to get off the ground:
Increase spying. Check.
Increase taxes. Check.
Increase propaganda/marketing opportunities. Check.
Create more of the problem supposedly being solved. Check.
Look at any "solution" to climate change that gains political traction and you will see it has at least half these qualities. Eg, nuclear power can only hit one at best (increase taxes) so that is a no-go.