Information Society and Global Warming The Dark Side of Virtuality


Authors : Anne-Marie KASSESSA

Volume/Issue : Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 10 - October

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7344693

The landscape of the 21st century has completely changed since it has been flooded in almost all areas of life and society by the surge of "New Information and Communication Technologies".1 (NTIC, in acronym) constituting the information society. To date, it has become common to get information online via online media, social networks and this, using this powerful tool that is the Internet which has profoundly changed our habits. Virtuality has become ubiquitous. We tended to think, at its beginnings, that the information society presented no flaws, no negative effects. But the more time passes, the more it is proven that this company has an effect unknown, most of the time, to the general public. A pernicious side in several areas including among others that of the environment. Indeed, with the advent of NICTs, the information society, given the virtuality allowed by the Internet, had acquired the reputation of presenting a “zero” impact from an environmental point of view. However, some research tends to show the opposite. The information society helps to generate, through many of its services, carbon dioxide (CO2) of human origin, which is causing the worsening of the phenomenon linked to global warming of the planet. It is this aspect of things that is analyzed in this article. Thus, in view of the dangerousness of global warming, responsible for a good number of harmful effects such as floods, the melting of polar glaciers, it is proposed to adopt responsible ethical behavior so that users of NTIC no longer contribute , consequently, to the aggravation of this phenomenon.

Keywords : Carbon Dioxide, Information Society, Internet, Global Warming, NTIC, Virtualiy

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