Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to the BBC, you should only send emails if you think the other person really cares, though some commenters point out cutting back on streaming services and online gaming might have a bigger impact.
Climate change: Can sending fewer emails really save the planet?
By David Molloy
Technology reporterAre you the type of person who always says thank you? Well, if it’s by email, you should stop, according to UK officials looking at ways to save the environment.
The Financial Times reports that we may all soon be encouraged to send one fewer email a day, cutting out “useless” one-line messages – such as “thanks”.
Doing so “would save a lot of carbon”, one official involved in next year’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow said.
But would it really make a huge difference?
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Mike Berners-Lee, a respected professor on the topic whose research was used in the Ovo Energy work, told the Financial Times it was based on “back-of-the-envelope” maths from 2010 – and while useful to start conversations, there were bigger questions.
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“The reality is that a lot of the system will still have impact, whether or not the email is sent,” Prof Preist explains.
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Rather than worrying about relatively low-impact emails, some researchers suggest we should turn our attention to services such as game and video-streaming and cloud storage which have a much larger effect.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55002423
Frankly I’m shocked that anyone who professes concern about climate change would go anywhere near something packed with as much carbon sin as a computer or mobile device.
When you touch a computer or mobile you are literally placing your hands on something which is only a few small chemical steps away from the crude oil from which much of it was made. Heat a modern mobile device or computer in a fire and it will rapidly blacken and reveal its true nature, by melting into a discoloured tar. The alumina components were produced using insane amounts of electricity and heat. The copper was refined using toxic chemical smelting processes. And that super tough glass screen was produced by melting acid washed sand mixed with exotic chemicals in a high temperature furnace.
Climate warriors who want to be taken seriously should self isolate, grow their own vegetables, and avoid all forms of electronic communication, streaming services and electronic gaming, if they want to convince the rest of us of their sincerity.
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I suggest it would be much more effective to stop watching the BBC.
If the BBC wants to reduce emissions it should shut down its transmitters. Of’course there would be no point in employing their staff so they could lay them all off. Also people would not bother to pay there television license
so the BBC could fire Crapita the company that runs the license collection system.
Start sending thank-you cards by regular mail instead?
This is major news!
Naomi Seibt shared the following on her Telegram channel.
https://www.brighteon.com/286e1904-20c3-489a-9557-8ea552a4bd90
Denmark says no to vaccination
I commented earlier this week about the proposed Permanent Marshal Law or epidemic law which would have turned Denmark into a totalitarian state.
For nine days there have been massive demonstrations outside the government building where people had drummed on pots and pans.
Finally on the government caved in and cancelled the new totalitarian law.
Everyone’s question is: Where was the press reporting an event as important as the US presidential election?
The event in Denmark should give us strength to fight the totalitarian globalism.
Approximately 95% of emails that I receive are spam from “businesses”. I look forward to getting any email from an actual acquaintance.
Meanwhile in Germany:
With today’s signing of the Infection Protection Act, the Federal Government has scored an own goal and from tomorrow, 19.11.2020, the pandemic is over by law! Why?
In the amazing German video, which I cannot provide a link for, the speaker at a demonstration explain the police and demonstrators, in a fashinating way, how the government’s own law relieves everyone from wearing mask.
With today’s signing of the Infection Protection Act, the Federal Government has scored an own goal and from tomorrow, 19.11.2020, the pandemic is over by law! Why?
In the video the speaker explain, as I understood it, that the PCR test in Germany use 80 cycles and in another health federal law is written that PCR tests over 34 cycles are invalid.
However, if Naomi or or someone else in Germany sees this, it would be enormously helpful to us foreigners with a concentrated transcript in English. I would be surprised if the same didn’t apply in most other countries too.
Pulling the plug on the propaganda machine that is The Beeb would almost certainly have a bigger impact.
….so other (friends) can make money mining bitcoin.
Can the BBC simply turn itself off? Literally, throw the breaker in the electrical room?
And never come back on?
I think that would stave off a lot more spooky scary CO2 emissions than 7 billion+ people sending 1 or 2 fewer emails a day. It would also save British taxpayers a mountain of cash.
How about returning the BBC to one channel of TV and four radio stations which used to be enough when I was young? We could then reduce the licence fee to an affordable £50 max.
This article sounds like something from the Babylon Bee!
So by sending out fwer email messages we will force Mother Nature to provide the optimum climate for everyone world wide and for all time. Problem solved. Let us disband the IPCC and stop all of this spending related to climate change.
People should not send emails to a bunch of people to discuss an issue. They should use a private forum or a bugtracker (request-features-tracker).
“Climate change: Can sending fewer emails really save the planet?”
NO! Idiot. >:-(
but without emails that poor Nigerian Prince won’t get his money!
This is a joke right? Send less emails? Um……do they even realize how business is conducted nowadays? I love how it highlights only personal emails. Again attacking the “little people” through shame and deflection. How did they get that damn story out to the world anyway?
What a bunch of rubbish!