Amanda Weaver: We're going to talk about *books* being bad for the environment before we tackle AI, which consumes a small nation's worth of water and power to churn out garbage?

Books take a lot of resources to make. Digital readers do, too. What's the more sustainable option? The answer isn't straightforward.

What’s better for the climate: A paper book, or an e-reader?www.npr.org Books take a lot of resources to make. Digital readers do, too. What's the more sustainable option? The answer isn't straightforward.

We're going to talk about *books* being bad for the environment before we tackle AI, which consumes a small nation's worth of water and power to churn out garbage?

Wait until you hear about golf courses

Yeah we should get rid of those too. Good for the environment, opens up space for parks and housing, and pisses off all the deeply shitty people obsessed with golf. Win win win

Spoken like a person who never pured a 5 iron out of a fairway bunker.

You should reply this to NPR, not the person bringing up AI.

npr out here showing their whole ass, so to speak

Not to worry. They're working on a solution 🤦🏻

*endless screaming*

Omfg this from the guy who apparently doesn’t understand any books he reads or movies he watches.

My cynical gut says that would depend on which product is the most interesting for investors atm The trends are glaringly predictable, nowadays

which they're using to write dog-ass billionaire- and corporate-funded screeds against basic reason such as this

As *reading* is the source of all evil, we're all be better off without books, and AI will help to achieve that goal. 1. let AI shorten all books to 160 characters. 2. let AI read it out loud. No more books needed, neither paper nor e-books. So obvious.

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