Dr. Joshua Pearce, an IT professor at Western University, claims that email signatures, especially those with gender pronouns, are detrimental to the environment. His study indicates that these signatures, which a small percentage of Canadians use, add to carbon emissions that could lead to one premature death annually. Pearce advocates for banning email signatures completely, arguing they unnecessarily burden IT infrastructure and increase energy consumption. He emphasizes that reducing such digital habits could significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions and improve environmental health.
According to his results, these additions to your sign-off could prove deadly. Writing for The Conversation, he said: 'In Canada, where about 15% of people include gender pronouns in emails, the resulting carbon emissions from this small change may contribute to the premature deaths of one person a year.'
The environmental harm and human mortality caused by this seemingly minor digital habit is evident. 'We should take the easy steps of cutting wasteful energy use in our communications and it can start with eliminating email signatures.'
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