Brian PrenticeWell, it turns out that the ballyhoo over the 2 Google search = 1 cup of hot tea’s worth of CO2 emission is turning out to be hot air itself.
It turns out that the 7 grams of CO2 per search was a misquote from physicist Alex Wissner-Gross who has been working on a set of generalized stats on CO2 production coming from different computer related activities.
But I, for one, would like to implore Dr. Wissner-Gross to continue his noble work. And I think I’d be speaking for mankind as whole if I could insist he puts a greater emphasis on identifying the Co2 production associated with making PowerPoint slides. I’m hoping he’ll discover that 1 PowerPoint slide is equal to a day’s production of Nike sneakers from a coal-powered Chinese manufacturing facility.
Co2 analysis helps people understand the environmental costs of the decisions they make. Now, I’m not so sure we are searching the Internet too much. But I’m damn sure we’re making too many PowerPoint slides. It’s become the crutch bad speakers rely on to avoid public speaking classes.
Clearly the millions of glazed eyes in thousands of presentations conducted around the planet every day aren’t enough to convey the point that more PowerPoint slides do not a good presentation make. Maybe something will change if people realized that an hour presentation with more than say, 5 slides, is actually destroying the planet.
Comments Off
Category: Trawling for Trends Tags:
