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> Health care is expensive for a reason. Yeah, but there are other reasons than just energy use. IP laws for example, or market segmentation. Or do you think t
by majewsky 9y ago
> Health care is expensive for a reason.
Yeah, but there are other reasons than just energy use. IP laws for example, or market segmentation. Or do you think that the regular edition of, say, Visual Studio is more energy-intensive than the student edition?
- sandworm101 9y agoIn 2013, the health care sector was also responsible for significant fractions of national air pollution emissions and impacts ... greenhouse gas emissions (10%), http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0157014 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... That puts health care far ahead of aviation in terms of carbon emissions. Anyone rationally looking to be carbon neutral for the good of the planet should therefore address their consumption of health care before their consumption of aviation.