
Originally Posted by
halbarad

Originally Posted by
Lana Torrin
Windows 10 causes climate change.
That's what I've learned over the last few posts. I'm pretty sure it also causes autism.
Really? ... I mean ... really?
Here we are, a bunch of intelligent and knowledgable folks, making fun out of e.g. Trump's "climate change is a hoax invented by China". And then we get comments like the above? And not from the ususal suspects, but from folks who I otherwise consider to be very reasonable.
The IEA estimated in 2007 that standby produced 1% of the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.[3] To put the figure into context, total air travel contributes less than 3% of global CO2 emissions.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Watt_Initiative
And that is for
standby and here we are talking about
powered on devices.
You see, I personally couldn't care less about mankind literally boiling itself to death. By the time it really hits us here in our western civilized comfort zone, I'm long dead and gone. I alos have no offspring to care about, so :...
shrugs:. But those members here that are ~ 30 and younger and/or have kids ... well, I pity you, especially your kids, as those are in for a very uncomfortable future life.
So leave your devices running all day, if that's what you want to be your future.
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