Climate change and the tech community
summary
IPCC pathways rely on unproven negative emissions and the world already warms by ~1°C with pledges pointing to ~3.2°C, while recent extremes include Antarctica hitting 20.75°C. The web story is concrete: data centers use about 198 TWh and networks 260 TWh, together more electricity than many countries and roughly Internet > UK. Practical fixes demonstrated: measure a site with websitecarbon com, run Lighthouse, shrink images, use green hosting or a green CDN and enable caching.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:37The IPCC report
- 6:07The report
- 8:12Emissions
- 9:29Climate action
- 10:33Climate emergencies
- 10:51We work in tech
- 13:20What can we do
- 14:40Code efficiency
- 16:16Faster website
- 16:57Carbon website
- 19:28Google Lighthouse
- 21:23Climb Action Tech
- 22:28Our influence
- 23:16What we can do
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