Wouldn't it be more accurate to blame global warming on the R9 290X and FX-9590?
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Hehe, only 'fake' environmentalists use perf/watt of CPUs and GPUs as some 'fashionable' justification to save the environment. Most people who are actually
serious about the topic would laugh at that notion because the effect is basically immaterial. You would save more by air drying your families' laundry, literally, or selling that 5-year-old V8 Ford F150, etc. Do you know how many muscle cars are purchased in America annually (Mustang, Challenger, Camaro)?
Anyone dead serious about actually saving the environment in developed countries can help right away, starting tomorrow by buying LESS food (i.e., because a lot of excess/unused food we buy we throw out, which then goes to landfills) and doing small things like buying groceries with paper bags / brings his/her own bag, instead of plastic because plastics take 100 years+ to degrade in landfills.
"According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, about 40 percent of all edible food is thrown away in the United States. Supermarkets lose $15 billion annually in unsold fruits and vegetables alone, while restaurants throw out around 10 percent of the food they purchase, contributing to one-fifth of all food that ends up in landfills.
According to the EPA, food waste has increased by 50 percent since the 1970s and is now the largest solid waste contributor to landfills. As your dinner remnants sit with 31 million tons of other Americans’ unfinished meals in landfills across the country, they produce methane — a gas with 25 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. It’s estimated that eliminating food waste would have the same impact on greenhouse gas emissions as taking a quarter of all cars in America off the road."
While the latter might seem a daunting and overwhelming task, eliminating food waste is something that everyone, from individuals to food service companies and restaurants, can be a part of. A recent U.K. survey found that 80 percent of customers want businesses to tackle food waste, and companies are responding by showing more interest and dedication to exploring solutions to the issue. For example, many companies such as Unilever and General Mills have incorporated waste reduction or “zero waste” goals into their long-term targets. They show wisdom in doing so considering consumer sentiment, financial and environmental impacts and emerging regulatory measures. (Boston for example announced a plan to ban commercial food waste last summer.)"
http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/05/waste-want-reducing-food-waste-can-help-address-climate-change/
Anyone actually dead serious about being an environmentalist isn't sitting there researching which CPU/GPU is better on a perf/watt scale but is proactively helping reduce food waste, actively recycles products, buys groceries with own bags or at least uses paper bags whenever possibly, walks to a store 10-20 min away instead of driving, buys solar panels for the roof, etc.
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Whoever is interested in saving the environment needs to take this topic A LOT more seriously than perf/watt.
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Getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S.
land, and swallows 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the United States. Yet, 40 percent of food in the
United States today goes uneaten. This not only means that Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165
billion each year, but also that the uneaten food ends up rotting in landfills as the single largest component of U.S.
municipal solid waste where it accounts for a large portion of U.S. methane emissions.
Reducing food losses by
just 15 percent would be enough food to feed more than 25 million Americans every year at a time when one in
six Americans lack a secure supply of food to their tables."
http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-ip.pdf
That's why perf/watt is an ingenious marketing PR to get people to upgrade to latest tech (because today it's easier to sell perf/watt given that node increases are harder and performance increases on the CPU side are at a snail pace) because they "feel good about themselves by buying a more 'efficient product' by association that it helps to save the environment." The irony is they don't even think about food waste. Some food for thought.
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