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Big Tech's new climate silence under Trump
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- belter 2y ago"When President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the global climate Paris Agreement during his first term in 2017, the response from the nation’s top tech leaders was swift. “Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real,” Elon Musk said on X. “Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.” “Wrong for our planet,” wrote Apple CEO Tim Cook. “Bad for the environment, bad for the economy,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post. “Deeply disappointed,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff wrote on Twitter, adding that his company would “double our efforts to fight climate change.”
- 1970-01-01 2y agoThey're too focused on their shiny new AI toys to care about solving existing existential problems. Maybe they will change their mind after a few AI datacenters are flooded or when "another unprecedented F6 hurricane" begins heading straight for their shiny new AI datacenters.
- dinkumthinkum 2y agoThere's no such thing as an F6 hurricane; there is also no such thing as a "Category 6" hurricane, which is the correct nomenclature. I wouldn't mention it except this seems like another one of these cases where we say "every storm is climate change" and I just don't think that helps the argument.
- legitster 2y agoI actually don't know many people who care at this point. All of my most left-leaning friends have moved onto other causes - gender conflicts, Palestine, and income inequality. If anything, they care much more about the cost of food and transport now than they do climate. To the extent that they do care, they are resigned that it's going to happen anyway, and they would rather not give any credit to a business or CEO for attempting this stuff. I would say that years of doomerism were more effective at killing the movement than denialism ever was.