Your Website Is a Pollution Machine

&gt; The internet is responsible for about as much pollution as the airline industry.<p>Sure, in absolute terms, but that is a naive way to look at things. Rather, ask yourself, has the rise of computing also led to efficiency gains across many industries which offset this?<p>Should we be more concerned that training the large ML models produce as much pollution as 10 cars over their entire lifetime. Will the near-term costs create even greater savings in the long-run?

&gt; The internet is responsible for about as much pollution as the airline industry.<p>Which is another 2,1% then? The upside is, compared to the airline industry, you just need low CO2 polluting energy for production and running of all the electronics and telecommunication.<p>The BP campaign about &quot;personal footprint&quot; is the base of this displayed thinking here too.<p>Get rid of the Gas and Coal power and the internet will be much cleaner automatically, not only regarding CO2. We need a system change away from fossil energy (and meat consumption and today&#x27;s concrete and some more) not less websites. The people will just spend more time on Netflix or reading someone else&#x27;s blog, if you take yours down because of the BP designed &quot;CO2 footprint&quot; distraction.