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You're typing this on an item that used up 10-80% of the average annual carbon for 1 person.
Does that give me the right to inconvenience you as much as I can?
10-80%? That's a huge range. Typo maybe?
Surprisingly not.
Newest iPhone are around 0.16 T in production, vs computers and monitors sit much higher once logistics and manufacturing, along with lifetime use and disposal costs are factored in.
Sorry, was incorrect maths.
1-8%, off by a factor of 10.
I see. Thanks for the clarification.