Streaming and downloads causing 'highest music-related carbon emissions in history'

By Helen McArdle

 

Streaming and downloads causing 'highest music-related carbon emissions in history'

 

LISTENING to music via streaming services or downloads probably seems much more environmentally friendly than filling your home with vinyl records and plastic CD cases.

 

However, a new study by Scottish and Norwegian researchers is challenging the concept that technology has “dematerialised” music - and their findings suggest our new ways of listening are not so green afterall.

 

While overall plastics use in the music industry has fallen dramatically since the heyday of vinyl LPs and CDs, streaming music from internet-connected devices has resulted in “significantly higher carbon emissions than at any previous point in history”, according to the research.

 

Simultaneously, while the carbon emissions costs of recorded music have soared, the price of listening has hit an all-time low.

 

Full Story: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17556898.streaming-and-downloads-causing-highest-music-related-carbon-emissions-in-history/

I'm all for a ban on ear pollution,

Edited April 10, 20197 yr by Krataiboy

Doesn’t cover the fact that a much younger audience has access to music that wouldn’t have before. You wouldn’t have had 8 year olds buying records, cassettes etc.