{"id":6194,"date":"2019-10-29T08:42:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T05:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"chill-your-netflix-habit-climate-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/29\/chill-your-netflix-habit-climate-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Chill Your Netflix Habit, Climate Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Movie nights once\nrequired driving to the local video store to rent, rewind and return the latest\nblockbuster. Now on-demand video content providers offer countless binge-worthy\noptions at the touch of a finger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But experts say the\nease of streaming services comes with a hefty environmental price tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching a half-hour\nshow would lead to emissions of 1.6 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent,\nsaid Maxime Efoui-Hess of French think tank the Shift Project. That&#8217;s\nequivalent to driving 3.9 miles (6.28 kilometres).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, online\nvideo streaming produced emissions equivalent to Spain and that amount may\ndouble in the next six years, according to the Shift Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While most of the\nonline traffic &#8212; 34 percent &#8212; is related to streaming videos, on Netflix,\nAmazon Prime, and Hulu, for example, the next biggest sector is online porn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Digital videos come in very large file sizes and (are) getting bigger with each new generation of higher-definition video,&#8221; said Gary Cook of Greenpeace, which monitors the IT sector&#8217;s energy footprint. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/lifestyle\/Chill-your-Netflix-habit-climate-experts-say\/1190-5327514-imbt5iz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Movie nights once required driving to the local video store to rent, rewind and return the latest blockbuster. Now on-demand video content providers offer countless binge-worthy options&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}