How much responsibility do corporations have for the climate crisis and for stepping up with solutions?
Here at the ISCFC we are committed to promoting personal, community, national and planetary solutions to reduce our environmental impacts and boldly confront the climate crisis. But as individuals, we can feel powerless when there are huge corporations -such as the fossil fuel industry and factory farms– that are disproportionately responsible for carbon emissions of the past and the present.
What should we do about this? Do you agree that corporations should do more? And if so, what does that mean exactly? How do we persuade or impel polluting industries to change their ways?
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The impact of generative A.I. corporations on the environment.
Generative artifical intelligence is very harmful to the environment and has a large carbon footprint; it uses fossil fuels to generate the large amount of energy required, uses up fresh water resources, and produces electronic waste. According to ECU libraries, training an A.I. model can emit more than 626,000 pounds of CO2. That's ~5 times more than the average CO2 emitted by a U.S. car in its lifetime, and ~17x the average CO2 emitted by a typical American yearly. Creating and using A.I. is having an impact on the environment right now, and while it is consumers who are using A.I. features and apps, it is the fault of large A.I. companies that the practice is so unsustainable. The environmental cost of A.I. models is much more than that of one consumer, and it should be up to the corporations to find more environmentally friendly ways of creating/using these services, or not even creating them at all.
Exactly, corperations need to e held accountable for the actions that they do. They gain money from exploiting enviorment and the government don't hold them account in any way despite the fact AI is evolving faster than ever before.