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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.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday July 15 2019, @05:36PM
People need to eat, and they like to be entertained. You're much more likely to get random person x 1,000,000 to carpool, before they give up their source of entertainment. The rest is economics. So long as it's profitable to provide entertainment in such a way, then it will be done. Humans have a carbon footprint. It would be much more interesting to see these carbon dioxide numbers compared to television, and hollywood. How much carbon dioxide is released with the production of one episode of Friends vs one episode of Orange is the New Black vs one episode of Dr. Who? How about Titanic vs Godzilla vs Thor? At some point, you're just saying, stop having fun, and don't do these things that we think you shouldn't do. So, just another person(s)/entity trying to control what we do.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"