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I don't engage with people who think we should delete everything to "save the environment" because their grasp of the issue is so pointedly myopic that their solution to saving the environment is destroying humanity.
"We keep everything in data centers and it's so terrible." Yes. It is. But it's an array of issues that are extremely solvable and don't require the purposeful destruction of decades of human creativity.
Analogizing to archives of physical stuff and libraries is bullshit. The things they preserve physically degrade and take up far more space.
@lethargilistic yeah Gerry McGovern's posts make me seething mad. They're so fucking myopic and puritanical and self righteous it makes me sick. Like, sure. Let's just delete all the old data. Who needs those wonderful old blogs and archives that aren't used a lot by the masses but that some people will find and love and use? Who needs that history? Who needs that record? Who needs the Internet Archive? Fuck off. I mean, he was complaining about fucking carbon footprint of HTML EMAILS earlier and suggesting we should send snail mail instead of emails with attachments, so I think he just hates technology and is using climate change as an excuse.
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Let's also remember that many really important artists had their work almost entirely forgotten for many years until it was "rediscovered" and popularised.
Johann Sebastian Bach is the exemplar who immediately comes to mind.