Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

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• takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  When will we learn that there’s no such things as a good corporation?

  Tesla similarly fooled people.

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  • Part4@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This isn’t directed at you personally, but google never fooled anybody that was paying attention to slowly unfolding disaster of the failure to mitigate climate change over the last twenty years or more (for many people older than I).

    Bad sentence, sorry.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We won’t stop burning fossil fuels until it’s illegal and militaries use force to destroy all extraction facilities, just like we won’t reduce our plastic consumption until it’s heavily restricted.

      I’ve believed that for 20 years, and I believe it now more than ever. We’re decades away from either being a foreseeable course of action.

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• potoo22@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t be evil

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• frunch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pledges are a way of taking credit in the present for doing/not doing something in the future. It never surprises me to see them renege on a pledge. They have no accountability outside a bit of momentary flack that will be swiftly swept under the rug (or dealt with by a reputation management firm) before business will resume uninterrupted.

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t be evil.

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• irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean the whole calculation was ridiculous anyway on how they determined the “net”, so it was never true. It’s just now it’s much more difficult to fudge the numbers since they are using so much dirty power for LLM training.

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• NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The fact that people even took those pledges serious is the issue. Corporations will say anything to get positive PR. but once you actually look into all their socially additive agendas, they are always below what we could accomplish if we just taxed them!

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