Do your Emails pollute the Environment?
I wanted to publish this article long back just because I observed one thing, lot of people do not manage their emails that well. To just view a website people are forced to enter their email IDs. This results in a lot of junk messages piling up in one's inbox. Some spam emails are auto-deleted after some time while some stay there taking space unnecessarily. People also tend to subscribe to a lot of newsletters due to FOMO and might end up not reading them. Also, certain emails might be useless after some time but still would be lying idle in one's account. All of these small things taken for granted will result in catastrophic things. So, why do these harmless emails have such devastating effects? For starters, the devices you use have a carbon footprint they leave behind when they are produced. The electricity used to power these devices has a carbon footprint as well. The internet service providers need power as well. The servers used to store and enable the exchan...