Over the past few years, environmentally-friendly web development has become an increasingly popular topic at WordCamps.

This is just stupid. China is building hundreds of new coal plants. This reminds me of the need to use buzzwords(gender equality, feminism, white privilege) to get funding in academia.

If you want to “save” the planet by minimizing CO2 just advocate for nuclear power and lobby politicians to pressure China instead of wasting time optimizing CPU cycles.