myAIPMUK officials: Useless emails are killing the planet
Dan Robitzski | Futurism
Warm Regards
"If you don’t have anything to say, perhaps don’t press “send.”
The massive number of useless emails sent every day apparently takes a substantial toll on the environment, the BBC reports. As a result, U.K. officials are expected to soon ask everyone to stop sending out messages unless they actually have something to say. Unfortunately, it’s not clear that it will do much to save the planet.
Numbers In Context
As originally reported by The Financial Times, officials in the U.K. will likely put out the call to cut down on superfluous emails — and thus the energy it consumes to do so — at next year’s COP26 climate summit. Doing so, one official told the FT, “would save a lot of carbon.”
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UK officials: Useless emails are killing the planet, Dan Robitzski, Futurism, 2020