I am increasingly puzzled by the message I'm receiving from many different organs of authority - government, media, corporations - that I should try to minimise activity that uses electricity or other sources of heat, light or locomotive power (because using those things is likely to affect our planet’s climate) and the countervailing pressure I feel I am under to use: bank cards (reliant on electricity) rather than cash to pay for things; electronic devices to interact with government and almost all organisations (more reliance on electricity) rather than talking to a person face-to-face; and AI (enormous consumer of both electricity and water) to “chat” with, for example, my bank, rather than going in and speaking to someone across a counter.
How is minimising the use of power and water compatible with the move towards making us do everything via a screen?
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