Online shopping adversely affects the environment

Shopping over the internet or working from home (without going to work) can increase carbon emissions and not reduce. A new study shows that it impacts the environment worse than traditional shopping.

Online shopping risks higher environmental harm than traditional shopping. (Photo: Internet).

The study also shows that working from home can increase energy consumption by more than 30%, which can make people leave their workplace, expand urban areas and increase pollution.

The Institute of Science and Technology (IET) reports examining the impact of 'reverse effects ' from activities that are often considered environmentally friendly. These effects have unexpected consequences from the policies introduced to reduce emissions, meticulous analyzes show that it actually transfers only emissions from one place to another.

Professor Phil Blythe from IET and Newcastle University (UK) said: ' We hear a lot about the environmental benefits achieved by working from home. However, recent studies do not show any positive effects. '

The report emphasizes that buying and selling goods online may help reduce carbon emissions, but only under appropriate conditions if it replaces 3.5 traditional shopping trips or 25 orders each. times or distances from the house to the supermarket is greater than 50 km.

Professor Phil Blythe said ' Our report sends two important messages to policy makers. First, climate change is a threat to our planet, so we don't have to massively deliver tasks, but it has counterproductive effects. Second, policy makers must work from home to understand that the positive benefits of their policy initiatives are simply to transfer carbon emissions from one place to another. '