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Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer

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Re: Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer

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Post by power_throw »

frashelaw wrote: post #2

Westerners really will do literally anything about climate change except reckon with their corporate overlords who by far are the biggest contributors to climate destruction. Get real, your app using 15% less power makes literally zero difference. If you want to make a real difference, nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management. Anything short of that and clim…

It takes 1700kwh to manufacture one laptop, or 17,000 charging cycles. No, "westerners" have absolutely no idea of what is the problem.

Re: Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer

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Post by faeriechangling »

anonporridge wrote: post #4
frashelaw wrote: post #2

Westerners really will do literally anything about climate change except reckon with their corporate overlords who by far are the biggest contributors to climate destruction. Get real, your app using 15% less power makes literally zero difference. If you want to make a real difference, nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management. Anything short of that and clim…

To be fair, westerners are cutting down their reproduction below replacement rate. That's far and away the most impactful thing you can do to cut your personal contribution to carbon emissions. But yeah, fretting about energy efficiency on the margins is a waste of time and cognitive effort. The world economy and travel largely shut down last year and it barely made a dent in global emissions. Our choice is rapidly d…

...then the westerners turn around and replace their population with immigrants to maintain their standard of living, whom in turn must waste as much power as the local population to be competitive and have a similar standard of living, and whom send remittances to their home countries, in which the reproduction happens. Outsourcing reproduction to other countries doesn't stop pollution any more than outsourcing industry to China means that the west isn't polluting, because in both cases it's western demand for goods and labour driving the engine forwards.

If you want a model of a country with falling emissions, look at Japan, which is actually dropping in population without merely outsourcing reproduction. The western model will never cause emissions to drop, because the point isn't to cause emissions to drop, the point is to maximize gdp growth and standard of living in the medium term, which is a goal that all but guarantees emissions growth. Get ahead now because if we don't, somebody else will, and then we'll be behind when global warming does everybody in!

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