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Everyone knows about climate change, that's not news. However there's a lot of denial about how bad rich areas like Silicon Valley and SF are today with polluti
by manigandham 7y ago
Everyone knows about climate change, that's not news. However there's a lot of denial about how bad rich areas like Silicon Valley and SF are today with pollution and population. The bubble is how the SV/tech community wants to change the world but has trouble maintaining its own backyard.
- autotune 7y agoNIMBY-ism ever present and accounted for.
- cj 7y agoIf it were "NIMBY", then SV/SF companies wouldn't contribute to pollution within Silicon Valley but would pollute elsewhere. I think the point of the article is that companies are indeed polluting in their own backyard.
- Nasrudith 7y agoMore like their ancestors polluted in their own backyard. The hardware companies that worked with them already left or went out of business. Trying to collectivize the guilt would be just silly like "NYC companies are responsible for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the 2008 financial crisis".
- trenning 7y agoIt's not NIMBY-ism when SV has been an established tech hub for 'like-minded' people for over 50 years. It's just you guys now. You don't get to use that excuse when you've pushed out everybody else because the only people still living there are tech employees making at least 200k year and all the millionaires and billionaires that have made their fortune from tech