Digital is ‘cool’, but don’t overlook the costs

For many years, technology has contributed hugely to reducing or removing many practices that consume our planet’s resources: e-mail saves paper, which reduces demand on forests ; while videoconferencing cuts down the CO2 generated by flying around the world. It may be considered “cool” to be so mobile and digitalised, but examine these benefits more closely and a different, less eco-friendly reality becomes apparent.