Data storage produces similar levels of emission (c. 2% of total) to flying and is growing at a far faster rate, but you don't get anyone writing pious pieces about how it's time to give up the cloud.https://t.co/PYdvrxHKvP

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) September 6, 2019

That’s because both of them are totally fucking moronic ideas, but the left doesn’t understand the cloud and largely doesn’t know what it is, but all of them have been on an airplane. Banning flying, therefore, appeals to their Antonian authoritarian asceticism but they don’t know enough to write even semi-coherently about the cloud.