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Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft workers have all pledged to strike on 9/20
- derrick_jensen 7y agoI find it funny that this climate strike is happening the same day as the Area 51 raid, wonder if its some sort of diversion
- md2be 7y agoNumber of people who strike will be larger than the number of customers who care
- Phillips126 7y agoSad but true... May receive a tiny bit of media attention but I don't expect anything to come out of it.
- pysxul 7y agoMight be a dumb question but Google is supposed to have a carbon neutral footprint no?
- jsty 7y agoYes: 100% renewable energy consumption, and carbon neutral since 2007 https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-sustainability.appspot.com/pdf/Google_2018-Environmental-Report.pdf https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-sustainability.appspot.c... (No connection to Google, I just remembered looking this up once before)
- aalleavitch 7y agoBad look for Apple here
- pixelbath 7y agoIs it though? Even the article itself goes to some length (almost half the article) to explain how Apple's already launching numerous envronmentally-friendly initiatives, and there's the free "iPhone 11 coming out on Sept. 20" plug from Vice. Worded slightly differently, this article could have been an Apple press release.
- bdcravens 7y agoEasily fixed: declare those days company holidays (it's a Friday anyways, when productivity tends to drop about 33%)