More than one reader rightly corrected me when my first draft of this substack called the Internet “sustainable.” As long as it uses finite mineral deposits that took billions of years to form—and generates waste that takes the Earth who knows how long to absorb—the Internet cannot be sustained.
There is no such thing as a "sustainable" internet, since creating and maintaining it requires mining non-renewable materials in perpetuity, on a finite planet.
Thanks! for your clarity.
There is no such thing as a "sustainable" internet, since creating and maintaining it requires mining non-renewable materials in perpetuity, on a finite planet.
Wonderful research and such important information....if only there were enough eyes and ears to receive it.