Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives
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#3In terms of excessive energy use, email signatures are the least of anyone's problems compared with what has happened to the web.
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#4There’s also the lost productivity caused by what’s essentially visual noise with no signal. Cluttering every message with non-related virtue signaling is harmful because it makes recipients filter the message from all the words.
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#5I remember doing CX debate in high school, and one of the things you could use to counter arguments is "disads" - disadvantages to any proposed plans. The way the rules worked, the affirmative team would theoretically have to counter any argument against their proposal, no matter how dumb - so one tactic was to throw out a ton of disads at them, that would technically apply to any proposal.
This definitely feels like a stupid disad my partner and I would have written, and had ready on an index card.
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#6I can't stand being in email threads where someone's signature is full of icons that come through as attachments. It's unnessessary clutter that looks terrible on the receiving end.
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#7Penny wise, pound foolish.
Re: Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives
#8The most effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is a carbon tax. But there is no global tax authority nor any feasible way to legitimize such a thing. Any country that taxes itself over a global problem will disadvantage its economy and people. If a country decarbonizes it’s often by off-shoring heavy industry and importing the finished goods. Canada’s new administration just got rid of their carbon tax.