| pokoko said: "thus gaming becomes a very green hobby" Are you even serious? Requires rare earth metals strip-mined in third world countries, uses as much electricity as necessary utilities, is manufactured by companies known for pollution and labor violations and it's a gReEN hObBy? Seriously? A GrEEn hObBY? I don't even care, I play video-games too, but that is delusional. Whatever you need to tell yourself, I guess. |
What do you consider a green hobby?
For example what do you think the carbon footprint of gardening is. It involves a lot of driving to get materials / plants / dirt / tools. Gas / electricity powered tools. Lot of watering, yard waste that needs a place to decompose.
Research shows that food grown in home and urban gardens can be up to six times more carbon-intensive per serving than commercially grown produce.
To put that 77 kg of CO2 for producing a ps4 in perspective: The global mean emissions for one kilogram of beef from non-dairy beef herds is 100 kilograms of CO2eq. Skip a couple burgers and you have offset your PS4.
Yes it's better to be dead for the environment. Yet out of all the things you can do besides sleeping, gaming is one of the least harmful. The carbon footprint of running shoes is already avg 14kg, I guess I could run on bare feet, see how that goes lol. And no they don't last that long, I use about 3 pairs a year to keep up my running, as well as other clothes, more laundry, shower after. I do start from home so no car trip involved. Probably makes me consume more food as well.
What is a green hobby???
