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The Ecological Cost of the Digital Revolution
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-ecological-cost-of-the-digital-revolution.
The digital revolution promises progress, but its hidden costs—from e-waste to rising carbon emissions—are pushing the planet toward crisis.
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The digital revolution requires gargantuan levels of electricity consumption to sustain itself, exacerbating an already precarious climate change scenario. The social havoc being wreaked by relentless digitisation is all-pervasive. The collapse of traditional ways and means of social networking for people across age groups, as well as the dangers posed by deepfake technology, are not things that can be swept under the carpet without reaping the most harmful consequences.
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