May 09
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The Ecological Cost of Not using P2P.
We’re on the verge of an
infrastructural shift as profound as any in human history, on the
scale of the Industrial
Revolution.
You might say we’re going to be
seeing the other side of that revolution, and it will change our political
system, our ideologies, and our beliefs.
Richard Heinberg. July
2006
On the topic of Peak Oil and the ultimate breakdown of civilization due to
a lack
of oil to manufacture products like CD’s and DVD’s.
We’ve blogged about carbon emission reductions through
utilization of P2P technologies to lower man’s footprint on mother earth.
But we haven’t really given a lot of detail. This week I
came across Basecamp
Earth, Ecological Footprints and a couple of the comments reminded me that
I needed to revisit this theme.
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Nobody did – but we will find out (and believe me it's hard, just try to find out the components of a CD or DVD….)
As well as the cost to the environment of the CDs, DVD,s and
the packaging; there is the cost of production.
Rupert Murdoch, exemplary citizen of the world has made a
strong statement with his release of the Futurama Movie on DVD.
He is the first large publisher that has acknowledged that
his output is damaging to the environment. His Supply Chain breakdown of carbon
emissions shows that the making of the movie damaged the environment and News
Limited acknowledged that fact and purchased carbon offsets (400 million dollars plus) to make the DVD,
carbon neutral.
Source: http://www.newscorp.com/energy/iwgy.html
Thank-you Rupert Murdoch. The world owes you one…….
Unfortunately, the actual DVD’s themselves, their packaging,
storage and shipping has not been included in this exercise.
See Manufacture of Finished Goods…… “-“. What does “-“ mean?
Does that mean that there are no Carbon Emissions associated
with the manufacture and distribution of CD’s and DVD’s?
Um no – it means that part of the proect was outsourced. Reading the article a little further reveals that
News Corporation is so concerned about the emission levels that they decided to
write some gumpf on how energy efficient their manufacturing partners were
attempting to become…..
(At least those that haven’t been moved to China
to hide the real ecological damage.)
Reducing our energy use, switching to renewables,
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But no actual numbers on the quantity of items shipped.
What the numbers do say is that over 80% of the cost was the manufacture and distribution of the physical medium.
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So we put it to the Industry – if the industry (with the exception of News Limited) has a problem with carbon neutralization of the carbon created during the manufacture
of plastic, aluminium, heavy metals, laser coated polymer dye impregnated,
silver halide, nickel sulfamate, sodium
hydroxide, acetone,
polycarbonate,
argon, laquer, zinc chloride CD's and DVD's – then we dont want too.
How can the content industry expect mankind to pay for
it’s folly. Because that is what the current legislative moves are all about.
Buy – Buy – Buy…… like there’s no tomorrow because WE (the gliterati, the
elite, the leaders of big business and Governments) want our payoffs now –
WE'RE too old to care about tomorrow’s environment – are you?
Share a file today and save at least 2 bandicoots, an owl,
a platypus, two possums and a koala from being poisoned tomorrow.
References:
Basecamp Earth, Ecological Footprints.
http://basecampearth.org/exp2/calcost2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_manufacturing
Physics of AV items and RFID – security aspects of RFID tags
do not work with AV items – possibly due to the metals in CDs
http://surferblue.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/rfid-in-libraries/
When the oil runs out:
Take a second look at biodegradable cellulose packaging films
http://www.packworld.com/whitepaper-22652