Will the video games industry ever confront its carbon footprint?

I take two issues with the headline and its implications:

1) Carbon footprint is a popular metric of choice. However, as anyone in the field knows, it is utterly meaningless when we talk about climate-stability, environment resilience or ecology (small and global scale).

2) Why such kind of questions should not be extended to any-human activity related to leisure? Movies, mobile game (from development to actual playing), motor-sport, normal-sports, pets, horses, sports events, etc? [who decided, who judges, and what is the point?].

My point is that with a wrong metric acting on wrong dichotomies is just a prescription to disastrous policies and ideas. To the point that any processes set in motion by this wrong thinking will not deliver on the intended goal, and at the same time "provide" (can be interpreted) means for undue pressure on economic development of the developing nations.

Any good counter points?