Word of the Day: Digital Hoarding

Today’s episode is for Thursday, January 28, 2021. Our Word of the Day is ‘digital hoarding.’  Digital hoarding, also called e-hoarding, datahoarding, or cyberhoarding, is storing huge amounts of data and not deleting anything. You can read along as you listen by clicking HERE or by copying and pasting this link into your preferred browser: Want to keep your English knowledge sharp? Try my Weekly Quizzes. Visit ArtisanEnglish.jp and go to the Weekly Quizzes page. (https://bit.ly/ThursQuizzes) I also offer 20-minute lessons twice a month for anyone. All you have to do is sign up to win. Look under Book a Private Lesson at ArtisanEnglish.jp for Saturday Free-For-Anyone (https://bit.ly/Saturday-Free-Lesson) and Sunday Free-For-Anyone (https://bit.ly/SundayFreeLesson). Here's the link for the lesson Data Burn and a brief introduction. https://www.artisanenglish.jp/debate-and-discussion-online/works/lesson-data-burn/ What the heck are we going to do now? We know climate change is real, and we know its effects are already upon us. We’ve been told that our commutes, whether they involve planes, trains or automobiles and yes, helicopters, if that’s how you get around, are major contributors to greenhouse gasses. As a result, we’re going digital, focusing on renewable energy and moving towards electric and hydrogen-powered transportation. Now our emails, video and other forms of data consumption and storage are killing the planet. Power-hungry data centres have become significant causes of carbon emissions. What’s next? Will governments throttle our data usage? Perhaps emails will face a special carbon tax?