Tag: climate change
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[Link] Environmental impact of delivering AI at Google scale
“Google’s software efficiency efforts and clean energy procurement have driven a 33x reduction in energy consumption and a 44x reduction in carbon footprint for the median Gemini Apps text prompt over one year. We identify that the median Gemini Apps text prompt uses less energy than watching nine seconds of television (0.24 Wh) and consumes…
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Cover of a United Nations climate report
https://kottke.org/23/11/a-perfect-climate-report-cover “The 2023 edition of the Emissions Gap Report tells us that the world must change track, or we will be saying the same thing next year — and the year after, and the year after, like a broken record.”
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Podcast series: Imagine a World, by the Future of Life Institute
https://worldbuild.ai/podcast/ I’m working my way through this podcast series from the Future of Life Institute, and have enjoyed every episode so far. I love the (mostly) optimistic perspectives that are nonetheless embedded in what you might call less-than-ideal contexts. The stories aren’t utopian or dystopian; they’re in an in-between space that’s entirely plausible, if not…
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It’s Time for Medical Schools to Introduce Climate Change Into Their Curricula
Wellbery, C., Sheffield, P., Timmireddy, K., Sarfaty, M., Teherani, A., & Fallar, R. (2018). It’s Time for Medical Schools to Introduce Climate Change Into Their Curricula. Academic Medicine, 93(12), 1774–1777. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000002368 This is a position piece that begins by describing the impact of human beings on the planet (the Anthropocene). The effects of climate change…