Can LED Lights help in fighting Global warming ?
The criticality of digital innovations is accentuated when the link between increasing emissions and resource utilization comes to the fore. Empirical evidence indicates that for every 1 percent rise in global GDP, CO₂ emissions increase by around 0.5 percent. In the long run, this ‘high-growth, high-carbon’ path can create an existential dilemma for modern civilization: while development is a universal imperative, it’s also important to stop the relentless rise in global warming, which is threatening to submerge low-lying regions and some coastal nations. Can modern development therefore be sacrificed at the altar of sustainability and for safeguarding the planet? Clearly, this is not possible because development is an irresistible phenomenon that has gathered its own momentum. Therefore, the way out is via energy efficient technologies and the resultant transformation it unleashes. Significantly, although modern development has created a carbon-trail crisis that has fueled climat...