👍 Our phones and gadgets are now endangering the planet
Whatever its other ethical contortions, Silicon Valley has an environmental conscience. Facebook has pledged to, sooner or later, power its operations using “100% clean and renewable energy”. Google says it has already achieved that goal. So does Apple. Yet even if you factor in efficiency improvements, beneath many of these claims lies a reality in which the vast and constant demand for power means such companies inevitably use energy generated by fossil fuels, and then atone for it using the often questionable practice of carbon offsetting.
Harris also touches on James Bridle’s new book.
@mrkrndvs then again … If we didn’t have them … what would the world look like … Can we definitively sat ‘better’ ?
@JohnPhilpin always just different on so many levels, whether it be work, education and the environment. At least worth asking the question I guess
@mrkrndvs it is – but the answer is always going to be an opinion – it is in there with would the world be better or worse today if Kennedy hadn’t been assassinated?