The average human breathes out 1g of CO2 every minute and a half.
By comparison, average UK cars put out 124.5g for every km driven.
It's not nothing, but it's not a lot either. It probably is worth evaluating the electrical efficiency of the tech industry as a whole, both in terms of highly executed code hotspots and entire pieces of business of questionable utility (ad javascript, cryptocurrency proof-of-waste), but individual web pages are the plastic straws of the industry compared to the giant flare stacks of real problems.
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The average human breathes out 1g of CO2 every minute and a half.
By comparison, average UK cars put out 124.5g for every km driven.
It's not nothing, but it's not a lot either. It probably is worth evaluating the electrical efficiency of the tech industry as a whole, both in terms of highly executed code hotspots and entire pieces of business of questionable utility (ad javascript, cryptocurrency proof-of-waste), but individual web pages are the plastic straws of the industry compared to the giant flare stacks of real problems.
It's the equivalent of driving 19 metres in an average UK car. That's not far, but that is for a single web page. That seems incredibly high to me.
What is the comparison of the number of cars in the world versus the number of people in the world ?
Estimates of vehicles in use (including commercial) seem to be about 1.2 billion. But the relevant number is surely total miles driven?
Ads and all the services that make a modern Web page should be included in the estimation.