[At-Large] ICANN blog : ICANN Carbon footprint

Roberto Gaetano roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 24 18:23:49 UTC 2019


The keyword here is ‘ridiculus’.
Incidentally, I believe it is ‘nascetur’, not ‘nascitur’, from ‘nascere’, but the last time I looked at latin books was in 1963...
Cheers
R

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> Il giorno 24 set 2019, alle ore 21:11, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> ha scritto:
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> 28 *million* air miles works out to nearly 77,000 air miles *per day*!
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> And 1840 nights in hotel rooms cumulates to over five years, just for the board of directors alone (not counting staff or "funded travelers").
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> When comparing this 1% lifestyle of resource consumption against the actual work product created the following phrase comes to mind:
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>  "parturiunt montes nascitur ridiculus mus" ("The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse.")
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>        --karl--
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>> On 9/24/19 6:42 AM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
>> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-s-carbon-footprint-blog
>>  * /For ICANN Org, ICANN Board, and funded travelers in Fiscal Year
>>    2018 (1 July 2017– 30 June 2018), the air CO2 emissions total
>>    11,037,822 total CO2 lbs, with flights coming in at 28,059,281 miles
>>    and 0.39 CO2 lbs per mile.///
>> Hotel booking CO2 emissions are calculated for each stay attached to a trip. The calculations are based on an average room size of 300 square feet and a CO2 index of 30.57 lbs CO2/night.
>>  * /For ICANN Org, ICANN Board, and funded travelers in Fiscal Year
>>    2018 (1 July 2017– 30 June 2018), the hotel booking CO2 emissions
>>    were 56,249 total CO2 lbs, with 1,840 nights of hotel stays.///
>> Car rental CO2 emissions are calculated for each booking attached to a trip, with the total miles driven divided by the average fuel efficiency of a passenger vehicle.
>>  * /For ICANN Org, ICANN Board, and funded travelers in Fiscal Year
>>    2018 (1 July 2017– 30 June 2018), the car rental CO2 emissions total
>>    5,818 total CO2 lbs, with 141 days of car rentals./
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