The climate change spin annoys me. Not because the research effort isn’t valuable. Not because these energy optimizations are unimportant. But because Google is

The climate change spin annoys me. Not because the research effort isn’t valuable. Not because these energy optimizations are unimportant. But because Google is generally a bad actor, with deleterious side effects on people, and this just distracts from that. Unfortunately, there is no time to celebrate doing incremental good when your company’s first order characteristics are, like Google’s, severely harmful and manipulative.