| pokoko said:
Mining is extremely damaging to the environment. From extraction to production, the process pumps out billions of kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air. The manufacturing of the Sony Playstation 4, for example, has produced 8.9 billion kg of CO2 since its release in 2015. -- https://earth.org/sustainability-and-the-video-gaming-industry/ The Green Gaming Project estimated that 5% of residential electricity use in California is consumed by gaming, including play on consoles, desktop computers and mobile phones. |
First off the website you are quoting can't even get the release year of the PS4 right. Just goes to show that the writer doesn't check her sources at all. Second off that's about 77 kilograms of CO2 per PS4 made (assuming their 8.9 billion number is even right.) To put that in perspective, that's the same amount of CO2 as driving a big dumb SUV or truck to work and back 25 miles each way for a week, per PS4 built. And guess what? Sitting at home and playing videogames instead of going out obviously reduces the miles you drive. Even if you only drive 5 miles less per week due to gaming, the PS4 would have paid its CO2 costs back in just a year. So much so that gaming reduces your cARbOn fOoTpRiNt drastically and thus gaming becomes a very green hobby.
Seriously you need to sit down and do the math on these things. Don't just take whatever source you can find as gospel. This is just as bad as the dude that thought PS4 games were filling up thousands of landfills with used games. Then somebody did the math and it turned out to be one or two landfills worth of trash if you threw away every PS4 game ever made.
Edit: Oh and gaming taking up 5% of household electricity when you include mobile games just proves my electricity usage point. Once you take out mobile phones and people trying to run a PC that needs 450 watts on a 450 watt PSU I bet that drops to 3%-4%.
