Authors :
Anne-Marie KASSESSA
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 10 - October
Google Scholar :
https://bit.ly/3IIfn9N
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7344693
Abstract :
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
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
