• persolb@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Sending the JavaScript to do this literally uses more electricity than this saves.

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      1 year ago

      This is classic. Corpos that are the biggest polluters are also the ones that push hardest on the idea of “carbon footprint”

      The more they can convince people that climate change is their fault, the less likely people vote for a government that will regulate the corpos

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        1 year ago

        Throughline (podcast) did an episode on corporations off-loading responsibility for stuff like this onto the populace.

        Found it: episode is called “The Litter Myth.”