People always take private jets as an example. And while they are very polluting, air traffic is only responsible for 2-3 % of all CO2 emissions. Transportation in general is responsible for almost a quarter of all emissions, and almost half of that is just regular cars, road freight is a third and the rest is aviation and shipping. So all the passenger cars are responsible for around 12.5 % of all emissions. That’s mostly just people going to work or grocery shopping.
It might’ve been invented by Big Oil, but if you keep giving money to Big Oil to buy fossil fuel you’re at least partially responsible for the carbon emissions released by burning that fuel.
The alternative to base load is load shifting, just move most loads to when enough power is available. Or in other words, base load is a thing because big power plants like nuclear and coal are slow and someone’s gotta use that power at all times.
Because your “auto-tagger” is a third party and you have to trust it to filter stuff correctly.
The path to truly sustainable electronics is to reduce the disposable shit.