Green IT: Addressing Environmental Risks with Eco-Friendly Technology

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This essay aims to introduce the topic of Green IT and addresses the various environment
issues that are addressed by the use of the Green IT technology. The Green IT aims to make use
of the product for the manufacture of the computers that does not affect the environment. The
production of an eco- friendly system is necessary for the reduction of the pollution that is
caused due to the manufacture of the various IT products (Akman and Mishra 2015). The essay
first defines the issues that is caused by the systems that is presently in use and then argues how
the use of the Green IT will help to avoid these risks. The Green IT concept is largely in use in
the various organizations for the reduction of the pollution that is caused by the emission of the
harmful products.
There are issues that may arise by the use of the traditional IT products or the IT
computers that are presently in use. The use of the traditional IT products involve the emission of
the various green house gases such as the various carbon emissions. The other threats that are
involved in the use of the IT products are the more energy consumptions that is taking place. A
large amount of poisonous chemicals is used for the production of the computers (Dastbaz,
Pattinson and Akhgar 2015). Other than the use of the harmful chemicals, there is also
requirement of the various fossil fuels. The use of the large number of fossil fuels may affect the
environment in the later stage (Zheng, 2014). The old computers, which does not function has to
be disposed off, which is not easy due to the emission of the various harmful gases after the
disposition.
The issues can be addressed by the technology of green IT technology. The idea is to use
the raw materials that are not harmful to the environment. The use of the Eco- friendly materials
should be introduced for the production of the IT materials. The use of the concept of cloud
computing also comes under the part of green IT as the use of the cloud computing does not