Comment by usr1106
1 year ago
Ask the relatives of the 134 who not too long ago died in a flooding in Germany [1] whether buying electronics for cents or reverting exploitation of the planet are more important.
Probably there are 10s if not 100s of thousands of victims more in Africa, South America, South-East Asia that we in the Western world forget shortly after reading the headlines.
Myself, a European, I have traveled across the USA before mobile phones existed or internet was available to private households. Believe me, the experience was better than traveling today where you have seen everything on Streetview before even getting there and using GPS to get to the next restaurant. (Yes, getting there by plane was not climate-smart act and I would not do it again after having seen it more than once.)
[1] https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/environment/catastrophic...
Oh, I see, it’s about hypocritical climate shaming.
The clothing industry accounts for more carbon emissions than electronics. It’s a huge chunk, about 10% last I checked. Will you become a nudist?
I don’t drive a car or even ride on a bus on a daily basis but if I buy an SD card I’m a walking climate catastrophe.
Blaming denser memory modules for climate change is sillier than the plastic straw or bag bans (instead of going after something that has a real impact).
Also do you really think that higher resolutions, memory density etc. somehow linearly scale with climate impact? Why?
> Believe me, the experience was better
Believe me, it wasn’t. We just cancelled each other out didn’t we?