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I don't know about them, but I know someone from a different company who has it all figured out. Every time their company does something nasty, they just donat
by rachelbythebay 14y ago
I don't know about them, but I know someone from a different company who has it all figured out. Every time their company does something nasty, they just donate to the EFF.
Must be nice to have it wrapped up all tidy like.
- arankine 14y agoConscience offsetting.
- meaty 14y agoUgh. Very insightful. It wouldn't surprise me if some startup starts trading conscience futures!
- CamperBob2 14y agoConsidering that the movement of money is all that ever changes anything in today's world, I don't think that's a bad idea. I'd listen to their pitch, put it that way.
- CamperBob2 14y agoIt seems like a legitimate way to reconcile one's conscience with the realpolitik of modern IT employment, engaged as we are in building the surveillance state/police state/nanny state we were all warned about by 20th century novelists and historians. I try to do this when I buy an RIAA-published album or watch a Hollywood film. I make sure I donate an equivalent amount to civil-liberties orgs (EFF, ALA, and others) during that year. "Carbon credits," basically.
- guscost 14y agoKinda funny, when I inadvertently buy a TV show or movie that features global warming propaganda, I donate the same amount of money to Climate Audit or Bishop Hill.
- vl 14y agoJust to clarify, you think that there is no "climat change" a.k.a. "global warming"?
- CamperBob2 14y agoThere is a wide gulf between "thinking that there is no climate change" and agreeing with the politicization of the issue at every opportunity by authors, actors, and journalists who often are not particularly well-informed on the subject. Your comment's actually a pretty good illustration of the effect the grandparent is (probably) talking about.
- guscost 14y agoCamperBob2 gets it. You're playing with a straw man and a neologism.
- lancewiggs 14y agoI have to admit it is quite astonishing to see someone denying climate change is a huge issue on a site dedicated to computer-logic based businesses that are future-focused, a site populated by many under 30. Climate change is the primary challenge for the next few generations, and once we move on from 'debate' we see that there are a wealth of opportunities in mitigation, reduction of CO2 output and coping with the impact. Just ask Elon Musk.
- guscost 14y agoI emphatically disagree with the "overwhelming judgement of science" when it comes to this issue. And I'm thoroughly disgusted by the profiteering that accompanies the global warming campaign. Let's see who is in denial 20 years from now. Permalink For Great Justice: http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1990/to http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1990/to
- ZenoArrow 14y agoPermalink for Great Justice? Here's a graph from 1970 (rather than 1990), using a more up to date version of the database you referred to... http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1970/to http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1970/to Notice the upward trend? Let's go back even further, to 1900... http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1900/to http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1900/to The upward trend in temperature is clear, the question then becomes why it is happening. What is your theory on this?
- kirubakaran 14y agoPrior art: Church selling indulgences in the middle ages.