How Gen-Z’s Growing Dependence on AI Is Leaving an Invisible Carbon Trail

Gen-Z’s Growing Dependence

At 2 a.m., a night before our exam, eyes stinging under the harsh glare of a laptop screen, my friends and I type a familiar command into an AI chatbot: “Explain this topic simply.” Within seconds, neatly structured paragraphs appear; clear, confident, and ready to be edited and memorised. No scattered notebooks, no endless Google […]