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Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives — it’s time to stop using them. (theconversation.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Edit: A lot of people seem to hate on the article without reading it.

Here is a supporting scientific source, by the same author: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188825000863

The environmental impact of our online habits is far larger than most realize, and as digital communication continues to evolve, we must consider its long-term consequences on the environment and human life. We should take the easy steps of cutting wasteful energy use in our communications and it can start with eliminating email signatures.

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So .. adding a pronoun to every single email on the planet kills one person?

Can we nominate that person .. there's a few that come to mind.

On a more serious note, the article is crapping on about pronouns and land acknowledgements as if they're what's killing people.

Here's a thought, what about AI, or what about the biggest carbon emitting companies, 57 account for 80% of emissions?

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/since-2016-80-percent-of-global-co2-emissions-come-from-just-57-companies-report-shows-180984118/

This article is nothing to do with killing people, it's everything to do with killing pronouns and eliminating land acknowledgements.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

the biggest carbon emitting companies, 57 account for 80% of emissions

Please stop spreading this misleading tidbit. The original source is the Carbon Majors database.
https://influencemap.org/briefing/The-Carbon-Majors-Database-26913

It doesn't say that 80% of emissions are caused by 57 companies. But by 57 entities.

One such entity is "China". Another one is "The Former Soviet Union".
Unsurprisingly, the actual privately owned companies that show up in the data (which cause about a quarter of emissions) are all energy, oil and gas producers.
Unfortunately, the climate problem doesn't have a solution as easy as "stop a few rich CEOs from doing evil".

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

The former Soviet Union, its allies, those opposing it, and neutral parties account for all carbon emissions post 1917