Netflix and Chill
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The list of ways campaigners say we need to change our behaviour in response to climate change seems to grow every week. Now, streaming video is in the frame. We test the claim that watching 30 minutes of Netflix has the same carbon footprint as driving four miles. We hear scepticism about a report that sepsis is responsible for one in five deaths worldwide. Author Bill Bryson stops by with a question about guns – and gets quizzed about a number in his new book. And, how much sleep do we really need? Find out if we need more or less.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:06.0 | Hello and welcome to More or Less, your weekly guide to the numbers all around us in the |
| 0:10.8 | news and in life. This week, statistics about sepsis, is the condition twice as bad as we |
| 0:17.5 | thought or half as bad as it used to be, or possibly both? A celebrity loyal listener |
| 0:24.1 | has a question for us about gun violence, and is there a global sleep loss epidemic? |
| 0:30.1 | As a leading expert has claimed. But first, if you don't fancy driving over to sea friends, |
| 0:37.9 | can't afford a night at the opera and a board of all the restaurants in town, don't worry. |
| 0:43.7 | There's always Netflix. For many people, the perfect way to spend a long winter's evening, |
| 0:50.3 | even getting a peek into the private chambers of Buckingham Palace. |
| 0:55.6 | Everyone is delighted with the new Profile, ma'am, |
| 0:59.4 | though they feel to be an elegant reflection of a majesty's transition from young woman to... |
| 1:05.8 | Old bet. Settle sovereign. |
| 1:09.8 | But for some of our loyal listeners, Netflix is no longer an innocent pleasure, |
| 1:16.0 | and no, I'm not alluding to Netflix and chill, I am talking about the planet, |
| 1:20.6 | and it seems that you're racked with guilt over the environmental impact of your streaming video |
| 1:26.2 | habit. Here, for example, is an email from Harriet. Can it be true that watching 30 minutes of Netflix |
| 1:34.0 | is equivalent to driving for four miles? Thank you, Harriet. Good question. We paused our own |
| 1:40.2 | Netflix viewing to look into this. Wondrous test to get on with it. |
| 1:46.0 | The claim was made in an article on a website called Big Think. It says, |
| 1:51.2 | apparently, watching a half-hour show would cause emissions equivalent to 1.6 kilograms |
| 1:57.0 | of carbon dioxide. That's also like driving 3.9 miles. |
| 2:02.1 | In other words, the old days when you used to drive over to Blockbuster to rent a video |
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