One of today’s trending posts on social media was the post that suggested that with every video you send on WhatsApp, we are releasing incredible amounts of carbon dioxide into nature. So how true is this claim? Let’s take a closer look at the facts that will surprise many of you and the reactions to the post.
It is known that every action we take in our lives harms nature in some way. Moreover, these actions include sending a message via WhatsApp or sharing a post on Facebook. One of the shares made on social media today is the sharing of our posts on the platforms. effect on nature brought it up again.
Climate and Natural Scientist from Boğaziçi University prof. Dr. Levent KurmazIn his post on Twitter that the internet is the new agenda, he claimed that data transfers cause more harm to nature than we expected. According to Kurnaz, every 10 MB file we send via WhatsApp causes about 200 grams of carbon dioxide emissions to the nature.
Levent Kurnaz’s sharing on the agenda:
Kurnaz’s post garnered many positive or negative reactions:
Are these ratios correct?
The allegation shared by Levent Kurnaz that the videos we send via WhatsApp and all kinds of sharing cause carbon dioxide emissions totally real. But this damage, Kurnaz’s not as large as he stated. While the odds are a bit of an exaggeration, that doesn’t mean that every single one of our actions on the internet doesn’t cause carbon dioxide emissions. By the way; The actual rates are actually at an alarming level.
So how much carbon dioxide do we actually emit?
One of the most up-to-date answers on this subject was given in a report published by Greenspector in October 2021. greenspector, top 10 social media platforms and showed the carbon dioxide effects of these applications. The average carbon dioxide emission per minute of these 10 applications, which we used for an average of 2 hours and 24 minutes every day, was measured as 1.15 gEqCO2. This level carbon dioxide emissions caused by a light vehicle on the 1.4 kilometer road. was equal.
When we set out with the same rate, each person using social media, on average, 165.6 gEqCO2 emissions, that is, the effect of a light vehicle traveling 14 kilometers. If the annual number to 60 kgEqCO2 (535 kilometers in a light vehicle).
- Note: These accounts are not per share, per minute flowing made of values.
According to the same report, the social media platforms that cause the highest carbon dioxide emissions per minute (EqCO2) and the amount of data exchange per minute are as follows:
- TikTok: 2.63g – 96.23MB
- Reddit: 2.48g – 100MB
- Pinterest: 1.30 g – 40.65 MB
- Instagram: 1.05g – 32.46MB
- Snapchat: 0.87g – 17.26MB
- Facebook: 0.79g – 11.15MB
- LinkedIn: 0.71g – 15.34MB
- Twitter: 0.60g – 6.28MB
- Twitch: 0.55g – 6.87MB
- YouTube: 0.46g – 3.09MB