We do a lot of things knowing that they aren't great for the environment. We leave the faucet running while we brush our teeth, we throw out tons of food because it looks misshapen, and we use hairspray even though we know damn well we've been bald for over 15 years. But surprisingly, our worse sin might be that we encourage the tech industry to keep churning out slightly better bricks to browse Facebook on, despite the fact that those companies are basically Captain Planet villains with stock tickers. Confused? Allow us to explain:

6 The Internet Causes 2 Percent Of All Carbon Pollution

We all know that the internet doesn't simply exist. You're not reading these words because the Universe willed them into existence on your screen -- they're being provided to you courtesy of a massive data center somewhere. Imagine the warehouse from Raiders Of The Lost Ark, except with never-ending server racks instead of mystical artifacts and shitty alien MacGuffins.

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But unlike a warehouse full of boxes, data centers require a lot of lightning juice to keep our memes flowing. Unfortunately, that makes them awful for the environment. Because of their insane energy demands, data centers are responsible for 2 percent of the carbon dioxide we're farting into the sky. That's about the same percentage as the entire airline industry, which means our GIF consumption is as destructive for Mother Earth as keeping billions of pounds of metal in the air.

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If you masturbated using your imagination instead of porn a couple times a week, you could literally help save the planet.

The problem isn't that we're running too many servers, however -- it's that these servers never stop running. Powering a server takes only a pittance of the energy required to constantly cool them down. We can't merely turn them off for a while, as that would have disastrous consequences -- like not being able to check Facebook for a few minutes.

And that 2 percent is only the beginning. It's been estimated that the amount of energy these data centers consume could triple over the course of the next decade, thanks to innovations like streaming, driverless cars, and our inexhaustible need to attach Bluetooth to everything.