{"id":84830,"date":"2022-08-27T11:28:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T09:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/?p=84830"},"modified":"2022-08-27T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T09:28:46","slug":"digital-damage-is-your-online-life-polluting-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/en\/environment\/digital-damage-is-your-online-life-polluting-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital damage: Is your online life polluting the planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shorter emails, camera-off Zoom calls and deleting old photos could reduce our digital carbon footprints \u2013 but sustainability expert Dr Jessica McLean says this is too big for individuals, and governments and organisations need to take responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swapping digital meetings, shopping and even exercise classes for their in-person alternatives can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions by avoiding transport-related pollution, but the environmental impact of our digital lives is also surprisingly high, says Human Geographer Dr Jessica McLean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t often think about the various infrastructures required to do simple things like send an email or hold our photos \u2013 these digital things are stored in data centres that are often out of sight, out of mind,\u201d says McLean, who is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Macquarie University\u2019s School of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we think about it at all, we usually expect these services to be continual and think that there isn&#8217;t really a limit on those digital practices,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, digital activity has a surprisingly high environmental impact, says McLean, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/researchers.mq.edu.au\/en\/publications\/changing-digital-geographies-technologies-environments-and-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently published a book<\/a> on the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the greenhouse gas emissions from substantial energy use by our personal computers, data centres and communication equipment, this impact also includes the water use and land impact from mining, building and distributing the metals and other materials that make up our vast global digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">High-impact digital activities<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Many researchers have attempted to calculate the individual carbon footprints of various technologies, and these often focus on the energy used by servers, home wi-fi and computers and even a tiny share of the carbon emitted to construct data centre buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of our greenhouse-gassiest digital activities include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Video calls: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0921344920307072?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Just one hour of videoconferencing can emit up to 1kg of CO2<\/a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;require up to 12 litres of water and demand a land area adding up to approximately the size of an iPad Mini, according to recent research from MIT, Purdue and Yale University \u2013 but switch off the camera and you\u2019ll save over 98 per cent of those emissions.<\/li><li><strong>Emails: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/howbadarebananas.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Professor Mike Berners-Lee calculated<\/a> that a short email sent phone-to-phone over wifi equates to 0.3 grams of CO2, a short email sent laptop-to-laptop emits 17g of CO2 and a long email with attachment sent from laptop could produce 50g of CO2.<\/li><li><strong>Digital hoarding:<\/strong> Data transfer and storage of thousands of photo, audio and video files, messages, emails and documents in an average US data centre <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/stanford-magazine\/carbon-and-the-cloud-d6f481b79dfe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emits around 0.2 tons of CO2 each year<\/a>, for every 100 gigabyte of storage.<\/li><li><strong>Binge-watching in High Definition:<\/strong> Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0921344920307072?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one hour of HD streaming a day emits 160kg of CO2 each year<\/a> \u2013 but swap to Standard Definition video quality and that drops to around 8kg of CO2 annually.<\/li><li><strong>Using super-computers: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-020-1169-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Australian astronomers<\/a> each produce 15 kilotonnes of CO2 a year from super-computer work &#8211; more than their combined emissions from operating observatories, taking international flights and powering office buildings. However Dutch astronomers produce about 4 per cent of these emissions, as <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/the-huge-carbon-footprint-of-large-scale-computing\/#text%22Dutch%20astronomers%22:~:text=The%20differences%20are%20therefore%20likely%20due%20to%20differences%20in%20energy%20supply.%20In%20particular%2C%20the%20Dutch%20national%20supercomputing%20facility%20SURF%20does%20not%20produce%20any%20carbon%20emissions%20because%20it%20uses%20100%25%20renewable%20power%20produced%20by%20wind%20or%20solar%20in%20the%20Netherlands.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Netherlands national supercomputer uses 100 per cent renewable energy<\/a>.<\/li><li><strong>Artificial Intelligence:<\/strong> Training a large AI model <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1906.02243.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emits 315 times more carbon<\/a> than a round-the-world flight.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beyond the individual<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Deconstructing the many and varied impacts of our increasingly digital lives can be overwhelming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot to take in, and many of these figures will change depending on things like the use of renewable energy that is being taken up by some digital corporations and many individuals,\u201d says McLean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis highlights the complexity of this challenge, showing that understanding and addressing digital sustainability goes beyond individual responsibilities, and is more fittingly held by governments and corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She says that the onus should be on governments to regulate a greater transparency on how digital corporations use energy, and to require regular reporting on sustainability targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Big tech continues to produce smartphones that are not designed to last.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost device manufacturers subscribe to a \u2018planned obsolescence\u2019 paradigm, rather than circular economy \u2013 for example, big tech continues to produce smartphones that are not designed to last.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McLean\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/researchers.mq.edu.au\/en\/publications\/digital-unsustainability-at-an-urban-university-in-sydney-austral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent research<\/a> with Dr Sophia Maalsen (University of Sydney) and Dr Lisa Lake (UTS)&nbsp;&nbsp;found that while university students, staff and affiliates were concerned about the sustainability of digital technologies, there was a big gap between their intentions and actual practices of sustainability in their everyday digital lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople expressed concern for the sustainability of their digital technologies, but they had limited opportunities to do anything substantive about this issue,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Digital \u2018solutionism\u2019 the wrong approach<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Concepts like the paperless office, remote work and virtual conferences often come with a promise of lower environmental impacts \u2013 but McLean says these can be examples of \u2018digital solutionism&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to question whether being digital is always the most sustainable solution,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McLean says that our society is becoming increasingly entangled in the digital via the exponential growth of intensely data driven activities and devices, from the Internet of Things to Big Data and AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, she points out that this digital immersion isn\u2019t universal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/lighthouse.mq.edu.au\/article\/july-2022\/how-too-much-screen-time-is-hurting-our-kids-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How too much screen time is hurting our kids<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/lighthouse.mq.edu.au\/article\/july-2022\/tackling-modern-slavery-in-the-australian-workplace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tackling modern slavery in the Australian workplace<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are uneven patterns and gaps in these digital affordances, both within Australia and across the Global South,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her book, <em>Changing Digital Geographies<\/em>, explores alternatives to our current exponential digital growth, and its impact on our natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are many alternatives for how we live digitally, from making decisions about what\u2019s \u2018good enough\u2019 to changing the whole digital lifecycle and the way it is regulated,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndividuals cannot be expected to resolve these issues, governments need to regulate and corporations need to act, to improve our digital future and make it sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"green\">Source<\/h5>\r\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mq.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School of Social Sciences der Macquarie University 2022<\/a>  |  <a href=\"https:\/\/researchers.mq.edu.au\/en\/persons\/jessica-mclean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr Jessica McLean<\/a> is a\u00a0\u00a0Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shariff shariff-align-flex-start shariff-widget-align-flex-start\"><div class=\"ShariffHeadline\">Diese Meldung teilen<\/div><ul class=\"shariff-buttons theme-round orientation-horizontal buttonsize-medium\"><li class=\"shariff-button facebook shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#4273c8;border-radius:1%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sonnenseite.com%2Fen%2Fenvironment%2Fdigital-damage-is-your-online-life-polluting-the-planet%2F\" title=\"Bei Facebook teilen\" 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