Posted on 09/28/2018 10:53:34 AM PDT by rktman
The company will begin estimating local carbon pollution from cities around the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Google needs to be broken up. Or better yet, put out of business completely.
If they were REALLY concerned : Maybe GOOGLE should START with having/requiring ALL THEIR employees to take public transit (or bicycles) to/from work - from the top of the company down.
Simply say something like that to those ‘environmentally conscious’ people you know .... along with them stopping driving cars altogether, turning off their air conditioning in summer, and set their heat at 68 in winter, and eliminate all the other electrical gadgets they play with. Those vacation airflights flights ... no more of those either.
Otherwise IF THEY DONT, THEY are part of the problem (and are hypocrites).
Then you will suddenly see their hemming and hawing, and rapid changing the subject. At least the smart ones might realize what they think is ‘a good thing’ isn’t what they practice themselves.
How many gigawatts do the Google server farms consume?
All should read/re-read Michael Crichton’s State Of Fear.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.