Alongside this is a story celebrating how more people are using 100 - 200 grams of internationally-shipped and hand-delivered plastic on the equivalent of a 256mb usb stick to distribute music instead of the internet.
Most of us can't wait to replace our massive-carbon-sink computer with a new one and put the old one in a cupboard.
Sacrifice was key to beating this and we didn't do it and we might be getting worse.
If we decarbonised power, industry and transport, we could afford to use a little vinyl for a niche hobby, some plastic for the few specialist packaging types that can't be done better in something else, for the medical uses and such like. We probably should be celebrating the rise of ownership over a monthly subscription to listen only while you pay. Until we are told the calculated impacts of each, neither of us knows the better choice for the planet.
If we adjusted the rules of the capitalism game such that sustainability, repairability, life of product, company and planet were baked in, that carbon, pollution and environment cost has to be displayed on labels and every service. Maybe simple taxes can do that, maybe it needs a little or a lot more creativity.
Most of us can't wait to replace our massive-carbon-sink computer with a new one and put the old one in a cupboard.
Sacrifice was key to beating this and we didn't do it and we might be getting worse.