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Is the digital economy is at odds with the green economy?
Don’t be fooled – ‘doing more things online’ has not offset the negative environmental impact of ‘buying more things online.’ In fact, the situation is getting rapidly worse, warns JULIAN VIGO
No techno fix: the ecological repercussions of new online products and consumer markets are downplayed by industry
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IN 2019 Raynold Wonder Alorse published “The digital economy’s environmental footprint is threatening the planet” relaying information from his working paper, The Digital Economy and the Green Economy: Compatible Agendas?
Alorse’s work is far from hyperbole as he points to what many ecologists have been saying for years: that there are critical blind spots in the desire to believe that the digital economy is compatible with a green economy. If anything, they are antagonistic to each other.
Not only do our smartphones rely on metals that exploit both the planet and child labourers in various countries, but cloud computing, data centres, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence are largely powered by electricity sourced from coal.
Alorse contends that “the digital economy and green economy will be incompatible with each other and could lead to more greenhouse gas emissions, accelerate climate change and pose great threats to humanity,” a claim that many scientists have already proven.
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