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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 14 2019, @07:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-about-bitcoin dept.

The Shift Project has released a report pointing the finger at online video as a significant, and growing, cause of greenhouse gas emissions.

From New Scientist:

The transmission and viewing of online videos generates 300 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, or nearly 1 per cent of global emissions. On-demand video services such as Netflix account for a third of this, with online pornographic videos generating another third.

[...] The authors call for measures to limit the emissions from online videos, such as preventing them from autoplaying and not transmitting videos in high definition when it is unnecessary. For instance, some devices can now display higher resolutions than people can perceive. The report says regulation will be necessary.

No word on the carbon footprints of HTTPS, JavaScript, or advertising.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 14 2019, @09:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 14 2019, @09:12AM (#866838)

    If there had been no streaming and all these people should instead go out and about and do things to get their required form of entertainment or fun

    Like people did in the 1950s to 1990s - "hang out", which generally involved lots of driving around, at least in wealthy countries.

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