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Each internet search, song played, video streamed, message sent, route planned via GPS, cashless payment, and social media scroll contributes to growing energy consumption, global demand for electricity, and rising CO2 emissions. The worldâs digital carbon footprint is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
Although the data that we are sending, receiving, and consuming is not physically tangible, it has a large toll on the planet and its people. Devices, such as smartphones and laptops, are often produced through unethical labor and under harmful environmental conditions. Hardware has a short lifespan and then becomes toxic electronic waste.
On the other hand, technology can be mobilized in the climate justice fight, aiding sustainable development, increasing efficiency, and informing smarter energy in spaces, such as transportation.