Speaking before the 2009 summit on climate change in Copenhagen, Rajendra Pachauri , the leading climate scientist UN, warned that Western society should adopt radical changes and reform measures if we are to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Pachauri, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, an acronym in English) Observer said that Western society urgently needs to develop a new system of values \u200b\u200bof "sustainable consumption." "Today we reached the point where the consumer and the desire of people to consume has grown out of proportion." Nobel Prize winner continued: "The reality is that our lifestyles are unsustainable." Pachauri offered a wide range of proposals, including legal requirements, disincentives economic and government subsidies, to lead Western society towards a more sustainable future. Pachauri Among the suggestions is that hotels adopt sustainable systems for energy use of its customers, arguing that the energy consumption could be measured and then load it into the accounts of the guests. Pachauri's proposal also includes measures to regulate land and air travel and, for example, argues that car use could "contain" with pricing schemes that discourage the use of private transport and suggests that a government tax to air transport encourage citizens to travel by rail, a mode of transport significantly lower cost and lower environmental impact.
Travel and Tourism characterize a Western lifestyle simply more and more untenable. Although the Internet has become indispensable to modern life, increase costs and environmental impact associated with its use. According to recent estimates, because there are more than 1,500 million people online worldwide, the "energy footprint" of carbon dioxide emissions generated by the Internet is growing at a rate of more than 10%. As increasing appetite for electricity network, Internet companies, like Google, have difficulty managing the costs associated with the delivery of web page files, videos, audio and data, creating a situation that threatens not only fund companies in the network, but in the long term may compromise the viability of the Internet. According to Subodh Bapat, vice president of Sun Microsystems, the leading manufacturer of computer servers, "in an energy constrained world, we can not continue to increase the footprint of the Internet ... we need to contain energy consumption."
energy consumption associated with Western lifestyle has been linked to the melting of glaciers worldwide. For example, Dr. Shresth Tayal, the Institute for Energy and Resources Institute (TERI, for its acronym in English), the main environmental institute in India, selected three of approximately 18,000 Himalayan glaciers as benchmarks to measure the rate of retreat of glaciers. According to Dr. Tayal, glaciers are disappearing at an alarming rate, including those that feed rivers, through India and China, provide fresh water to over two billion people during the dry season. The findings of Dr. Tayal, who ruled frankly Times: "The glacier is dying" - support the assertion that the glaciers could disappear by 2035, made in 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel United Nations Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC adviertió the shortage of fresh water will "hunger, water wars, and hundreds of millions of climate change refugees."
Climate change is also charging a toll on the quality of the marine waters of Alaska, where the cooling of the ocean absorbs and retains more gas less cold water. Jeremy Mathis, a chemical oceanographer at the University of Fairbanks, found that Alaskan waters are becoming acidic from the absorption of greenhouse gases. Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leading to ocean acidification, because each year the seas absorb almost 30% of the greenhouse gases emitted by humans. According to Mathis, the same qualities that made Alaskan waters among the most productive in the world, cold, shallow and abundance of marine life, make them particularly vulnerable to acidification. Mathis noted that ocean acidification impedes growth, healthy development and reproductivity of certain species of crabs and fish. This situation has huge implications not only for marine life in the Alaskan waters, but to the broader ecosystem of Alaska and the 4,600 million dollars from the fishing industry that U.S. state.
Despite the growing evidence that so-called Western lifestyles contribute to global climate change, it may take more than a generation before implanting the new system of values \u200b\u200bproposed by Pachauri. However, the scientist believes that young people recognize the need for some of its recommendations for radical change. "I think it will be much more sensitive than adults, who have been corrupted by the patterns we have been following for years."
Update Bobbie Johnson (The Guardian)
is almost impossible to estimate the impact that the creation of the Internet has had on the world for decades. With over quarter of the global online population now has become a central part of the lives of millions of people around the planet and all communications revolutionized the retail in our day to day social life.
This growth, combined with the energy demands of Internet data centers, obviously means more attention to the need to pay for this innovation. After all, the most voracious energy demands usually remain hidden from view of Internet users who routinely travel through the network.
My story was in part intended to highlight the issue of energy footprint left by Internet and amend the plans of some confusing and ill-informed reports published in the past. The article was a direct response to Google, something unusual publication of this kind-but the mainstream press is still fairly ambivalent towards the subject, preferring to focus on the next big product launch or other advance that overemphasizes the use of Internet .
Experts say that the energy footprint of the Internet continues to grow at least 10% each year and more companies are building new huge server farms for faster connectivity. In fact, just upstream of the Google facility in The Dalles, Oregon, which focused on article, "Amazon is working on building a new data center, at a cost of over $ 100 million, housed in a solid monster 30,000 square meters. And Facebook, now the second largest website in the world, announced in January that excavating the land, also in Oregon, to build his first custom data center. Likely to be the first of many.
And on top of this expansion are further cooling energy needs and this is not simply a problem can be solved with national regulations, or even an agreement between the Internet's strongest companies. With the rapid expansion Internet population in countries like China and India, hordes of corporations are building new data centers to observe fewer rules to submit to audit their energy use.
This is a crisis looming everywhere, and despite valiant attempts to bypass this problem from all sides, our desire for greater Internet connection appetite for more electricity is not a problem anytime soon jump .
Sources: -James Randerson, "Western Lifestyle UnSustained, Climate Expert Says Rajendra Pachauri," The Guardian.UK, November 29, 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ 2009/nov/29/rajendra-pachauri-climate-warning-copenhagen –Bobbie Johnson, “Web Providers Must Limit Internet’s Carbon Footprint, Say Experts,” San Francisco Guardian News Media Limited. May 3, 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/03/internet-carbon-footprint –Jeremy Page, “Scientist’s Himalayan Mission Provides Unwelcome Proof: Glaciers Are Dying,” The Times Online (London), December 5, 2009, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6945 249.ece –Dan Joling, "Global Warming Threatens Alaska's Waters with Acidification," Alternet, September 9, 2009, http://www.alternet.org/water
Research Students Abbey Wilson and Jillian Harbin, DePauw University and Anne Cozza, Sonoma State University Academic Evaluators
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Translation: Ernesto Carmona (special ARGENPRESS.info)
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