The Week United Kingdom (Digital)

The Week United Kingdom (Digital)

1 Issue, V. 1236

Spirit of the age

Britons will spend £2.7bn this summer on 50 million new outfits that they expect only to wear once, according to research for the charity Barnardo’s. Some 11 million throwaway outfits will be bought for summer holidays, while a further ten million will be bought for weddings, at an average price of £79.76. Streaming of online pornography produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as the whole of Belgium, according to a new report by the French think tank The Shift Project. Its researchers found that the energy required to stream online videos is responsible for the emission of 300 million tonnes of CO2 a year – almost 1% of total global emissions – and that a third of that comes from videos with pornographic content.…
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