It does matter because of the side effects (pollution, etc.). The environment and how it affects humanity is a complex system with many variables. Both generation and consumption are in there.
>If warming continues at this rate, humanity could breach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C in 2028, even sooner than other research has projected.
I wonder if we are already there :( I remember a year or 2 ago we breached 1.5C for a short period of time.
Crypto mining was bad enough, now with AI and Trump, I expect it will happen sooner then later.
We did this to ourselves. We had ~40 years of warnings but politicians we elected did not want to do any real work for fear of loosing their cushy job were lobbyists do all the work for them.
Writing prompt: Humankind is extinct but the AI servers keep running, and one day a random automated crawler/scrapper bot strikes up a conversation with an AI, somehow sparking sentience...
Let's not delude ourselves. Crypto and AI electricity use is bad, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the carbon sources that really matter. Even Trump cannot make things much worse in the big picture.
We may lose stable seasons for growing crops, but at least the chat bot can embed an ad into your question while you wait for your burrito taxi.
What is the point of this convenience when it really seems to just be making people miserable and isolated?
We're driving off a cliff, and our elected government has a death drive.
Stop focusing on energy usage and start focusing on energy generation. It doesn't matter how much energy we consume if it comes from renewables.
It does matter because of the side effects (pollution, etc.). The environment and how it affects humanity is a complex system with many variables. Both generation and consumption are in there.
It does matter because for now renewables are manufactured mostly with coal and oil
Well, at least the frogs won't notice it.
And apparently neither will we, until we are boiling.
[delayed]
>If warming continues at this rate, humanity could breach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C in 2028, even sooner than other research has projected.
I wonder if we are already there :( I remember a year or 2 ago we breached 1.5C for a short period of time.
Crypto mining was bad enough, now with AI and Trump, I expect it will happen sooner then later.
We did this to ourselves. We had ~40 years of warnings but politicians we elected did not want to do any real work for fear of loosing their cushy job were lobbyists do all the work for them.
Who do you mean "we"? Look at the evolution of CO2 emisions in the past 40 years by region.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...
What's the argument here?
Region X was first and reduced their emissions 10-20% so it's fine, it's region Y that's the problem?
Region X is fine because they have less people, even though they per-capita emit multiples of region Y?
now look at it measured from consumption per capita ...
Writing prompt: Humankind is extinct but the AI servers keep running, and one day a random automated crawler/scrapper bot strikes up a conversation with an AI, somehow sparking sentience...
If that's the type of writing prompt that interests you, you may enjoy the Children of Time Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/children-of-time-adrian-tchaiko...
Let's not delude ourselves. Crypto and AI electricity use is bad, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the carbon sources that really matter. Even Trump cannot make things much worse in the big picture.