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Carbon in record vinyl stays locked up for decades and has essentially no impact on the environment. The bags that every single item I buy comes in goes straight to the landfill. Nearly every molecule of carbon based fuel I burn goes into the atmosphere as CO2, or worse, CO. Records aren't a problem.
I wonder how much carbon is released from just one volcano eruption or a forest fire in California?
Hey! I'm sure you can differentiate between man made and natural occurrences right? Buddy
I can't think of anything that wastes more energy and serves no purpose other than entertaining a biological entity, that would be listening to a stereo. Of course, there is plenty of AC made from carbon producing energy products. Perhaps a windup turntable and a crystal radio would suffice.
If the source is still fossil fuels(oil, coal..) then NOPE (scary movie)...isn't all plastic, pfc, pvc etc. a composition of hydrocarbons (oil,coal gas)? Micro plastic molecules are everywhere now, in our food supply, our organs. The Plastic Earth."Nobody throws away their vinyl records" said one of the commentators, I used to pick up many 'records' on the City streets. That presenter claims to be a record collector...I only saw a dozen records on her shelf.
Annual volcanic emissions over the last several decades were "within a range of about 0.3 ± 0.15 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, implying that human carbon dioxide emissions were more than 90 times greater than global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions."https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activitiesA large forest fire can emit 150 million metric tons of CO2, but some is removed from the atmosphere over time (decades) as the forest regrows. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sept-15-2018-summer-science-camping-under-a-volcano-plastic-in-beluga-bellies-and-more-1.4821942/how-do-co2-emissions-from-forest-fires-compare-to-those-from-fossil-fuels-1.4821944Global warming drives an increase in the number, duration, and area of forest fires, and creates conditions that inhibit their full regrowth (leaving a portion of released CO2 in the atmosphere), so they form part of a positive feedback cycle that increases global warming. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/climate-feedback-climate-change-forest-fires/The BBC puff piece on replacing polyvinyl chloride (PVC) with polyethylene chloride (PEC) in record production is the kind of irresponsible nonsense reporting that wastes people's time and waste's the potential of journalism to inform evidence-based policy decisions.PVC production has vanishingly little to do with climate change, and manufacturing LPs has essentially zero impact on the demand for PVC. So, "green" LPs are just a marketing gimmick and, as the record manufacturer interviewed states, he would have to replace all of his equipment to switch to the meaningless gimmick. The environmental impact of junking his entire manufacturing facility is almost certainly much larger than whatever benefit there is from switching to PEC.What these brainless "news" stories always fail to ask is "compared to what?" Here's what PVC use in LPs compares to—it's lost somewhere in the "Others" category:
