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You can think about moral actions like a vector, they have both a magnitude and a direction. If the magnitude is small enough the action is negligible, regardle
by HeyHoJoe 6y ago
You can think about moral actions like a vector, they have both a magnitude and a direction. If the magnitude is small enough the action is negligible, regardless of direction. If the article’s figures are accurate, you can optimise away 100% of emissions from the internet - that’s the whole thing - and it would represent a reduction of 0.6% of global emissions. That just makes any individual action inside that space negligible.
- zinekeller 6y agoI am in severe disagreement of this, since it does not calculate the effect of running the website on the device. It seems that the author has forgotten the impact of an autoplaying video on phones or laptops, or the execution of JS in the browser, or worse using GPU just for rendering your "pixel-perfect" news website without reason (which by the way I've encountered nearly every day). If it is a website that is visited very rarely, sure, pass. But even with 100 visitors every day, it does start to trickle down.
- HeyHoJoe 6y agoIndeed, if the magnitude of the action is greater then it is more important. I’m not sure how accurate the authors estimate is, but my feeling is that even accounting for client devices, we’re talking about a vanishingly small proportion of global emissions, with the possible exception of the very largest tech companies. Though it depends on what the actual emissions value is, which I can’t say that I know.