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As Spotify moves to video, the environmental footprint of music streaming hits the high notes
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2025
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What the fuck is this article? This is not helpful in any way. Yeah du-doy the thing that uses electricity "creates" carbon. How bout we remove fossil fuels from the grid then?
1.1g per hour is ridiculously efficient. An average meal in the Western world is ~3Kg.
That's one of my pet peeves, when people use relative comparisons to overstate things that have very small absolute differences.
55g of CO2 is basically nothing. A gallon of gasoline represents about 2400g of CO2 emissions when burned. So for a typical vehicle that gets 30 miles per gallon, 55g of CO2 is basically the equivalent of driving 0.6875 miles (1.1km).
It's less than the carbon footprint of a cup of coffee (60g).
Or, alternatively, eating a single quarter pound hamburger would be about 3 kg of CO2, or 55 hours of video viewing at this rate.
I'll keep streaming and just eat less popcorn. I've been needing to cut back. I blow a kiss to the sky. I got your back, Mother Earth. I always check the resin identification codes before I recycle plastics, too.
It's to put the blame on the consumer. Fuck these cooperate overlords. I'm hungry, when do we eat?
How much is that in football fields?
0.54% of a foosball table. Or 0.00000000000000042% of the length of two average elephants.