Earth Day, turn those amps OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About 50mil new vinyl records were sold in the US in 2025. Obviously the number of records manufactured was much higher. 
Significant amounts of pollution is bringing produced by these factories. Tons of electricity is being used. All equipment used was manufactured using a combination of natural resources and recycled. All of which produces a schiit ton of polution. Workers driving to these plants in their cars burn fuel and pollute the environment. 
I propose we boycott buying new vinyl records. 

The AI we all use now almost daily requires installations that consume enormous amounts of energy to power the processors. As AI evolves and is implemented throughout large corporations IT and other areas, the energy consumption will increase exponentially. Boycott AI. 
 

When you buy your next appliance that’s made in china where they consume energy and don’t give two schiits about the environment, think about washing your dishes or close by hand and air dry that stuff. 

In the winter just dress in layers in your house. Turn the heat down.  
 

I’ll think about how long it really takes my system to warm up and how long I should listen for. I’ll draw my own conclusions on how long to keep my components on  

I’ll leave you with this…

https://youtube.com/shorts/_svWM0Dbp6U?si=YvF8PB1-ydPVwx9R

@samureyex Already removing the tax credit would be a step in the right direction. Having kids is a selfish hobby (Dawkins' "Selfish Gene"). I don't get a tax credit for the audio hobby either. Or for having a dog, or, or, or, ... 

Sensible people without kids won't pay any additional tax, so that line is wrong. But I not having any kids, pay for someone else's kids. Thank you very much.

Re politicians, agree broadly, so unless you want to refuse any and all taxes, then you should support taxes to shape human behavior (e.g. cigarette tax). A child tax is nothing else than an incentive not to have kids. One can consider exception for adopted kids, as there the kin-selection aspect falls away.

@audphile1 ,

All valid points, but that’s corporate consumption. This is about being personally responsible for the energy saving actions we are individually in control of.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to plug in and recharge my device and vacuum the laundry room before I put in a load of wash.

If you are here, you’ve got amps. That’s the subject, the rest is ....

interesting, but each and every decision you/we make has to fit your belief system.

who said ’you gotta believe’? not the movie, before that?

Was it about the 1969 Mets?

I know exactly where I was when they won: In a cab, stuck in traffic on 3rd avenue, outside the US Plywood Headquarters’ Building  at 49th street; horns blasting, computer paper flying down from everywhere (office windows opened then) (the big wide tractor feed printouts, some didn’t open on the way down, THUD).