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What do you get when you add 1 billion daily Google searches, 60 million Facebook status updates, 50 million tweets and 250 billion emails per day?
A whole lot of melting glaciers, that's what. While activists are happy about the Depression-era economy and its drop in carbon emissions, the one area of business still working, the Internet, is now getting an evil gaze.
The Internet has become the fastest growing source of carbon emissions - if the Internet was a country, it would be the planet's fifth-biggest consumer of power, ahead of India and Germany. And that's only going to grow more.
Could the Net be killing the planet one web search at a time? By Alex Roslin, For Postmedia News
