Your Emails Are Polluting The Earth

Kiera Butler explains:

[E]mails—especially those with attachments—still use energy and create greenhouse gas emissions, even if you don't print them. … Part of the reason we have so much data has to do with redundancy: Let's say you take a picture and send it to 20 people. Each of those people then have to download it, which requires equipment—personal computers, servers, and storage centers. … All of a sudden there are 7,000 copies, and because of that there are 7,000 devices that are being run to support that data.