https://www.gamesindustry.biz/manufacture-and-shipping-of-physical-games-is-100-times-more-carbon-intensive-than-digital-new-study-finds
It takes 312 grams of carbon to make a physical disc, according to this article and math. Your typical SUV makes 4.6 (4.6 million grams) metric tons of carbon every single year, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. So according to math it takes 14,743 discs to equal driving an SUV for one year. In other words buying physical game discs contributes absolutely nothing to global warming compared to driving an SUV everyday.
The above article is a prime example of trying to blame consumers for pollution when in truth it is done by billion dollar corporations. Read this article about how carbon footprints were invented by BP to shift blame onto consumers. https://countercurrents.org/2021/06/the-fallacy-of-our-carbon-footprint/
Oh! And best of all, it has the added benefit of acting as pro-digital-only propaganda. A single PS5 disc and case takes up 0.0122 cubic feet of space. I own thousands of physical games and would STILL need to fill
EVERY
SINGLE
SQUARE FOOT
of my apartment with PS5 game discs to pollute 87% as much pollution as a single SUV does in a year.
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