An illusion strengthened by the apparent immateriality of the internet and digital money is that the growth of the digital economy does not affect our planet.
Some entrepreneurs think that because the products they create are in the digital world, they have nothing to do with the extraction of resources that sustains our economy.
They forget that digital reality needs lots of energy consumption based on burning fossil fuels. The resource identified as the primary cause of climate change.
In addition, the production of digital devices depends on the expansion of mining in search of rare minerals and lithium.
The challenges of the ecological crisis will not go away with the digital economy and its alternate realities or metaverses.
