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"What's the carbon footprint of ... email?"

The news article mainly addresses the issue of people and machines, although the use of email has numerous advantages, it is affecting the environment and speeding up the greenhouse effect. However, the main cause of the high carbon footprint is predominantly due to spam emails; each spam email creates 0.3g of Carbon dioxide if you times this by the 62 trillion spam emails sent globally it is equivalent to "driving around the Earth 1.6 million times". Here is a link to another news article which breaks down the several aspects of email and shows their impact on CO2 emissions: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10220363-93.html