Does your job create climate damage?
I’m sure you have thought about how your actions affect climate change on a personal level, and most likely you do everything in your power to help reduce your carbon footprint and lower emissions. We all want to avoid a real-life sequel to Kevin Costner’s post-apocalyptic adventure Waterworld, but are we writing the screenplay without knowing it? I sat down with a really great friend of mine, and had a short discussion about this topic, and the results were rather interesting.
Me: “How much climate damage happens from poorly optimized websites?”
ChatGPT: “Poorly optimized websites can contribute to climate change by consuming more energy and generating more carbon emissions. This can happen when websites have a lot of large images or videos that take a long time to load, or when they are not designed to be mobile-friendly and require more data to be transferred...”