How Companies Abandon Climate Commitments and Get Away With It
How to Abandon Your Climate Commitments and Get Away with It
I explore how major corporations quietly renege on their climate pledges without facing real consequences. By exploiting vague language and shifting goals, these companies maintain their green image while continuing harmful practices. This pattern reveals a systemic failure in holding businesses accountable for their environmental promises.
The most effective way to break a climate promise is to make it so vague that no one can prove you broke it.
- Teever
A $13 billion dollar Meta datacentre was recently announced for a location near me: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/meta-data-centre-alb...
There's a kaleidoscope of issues with this that result in strong feelings of dismay and it took me a couple days of thinking about this recent announcement before I realized what's so completely disappointing about it.
So they're installing a $13 billion dollar data centre that's going to pull 1-1.8GW of power, dumping the resulting pollution onto the people in my province and the land they live on. It's probably going to mess up the groundwater int he area. And it's going to mess with the prices prices electricity and natural gas. And this is all at the whim of one person -- Mark Zuckerberg because with 61% of the voting power of Meta he is Meta. And the C02 emissions... Yadda yadda yadda, we all know the drill with these conversations.
But none of that is the worst part.
The worst part to me is that the heat energy from this 1-1.8gw operation is going to be completely wasted and dumped into the atmosphere. No attempt to use it for anything else.
In a different world the Alberta government wasn't so inept and self-serving and sheltered from the consequences of being so that they capitalized on an opportunity to bootstrap a heated greenhouse industry in central Alberta from the waste energy of a Meta funded datacentre.
In a different world Mark Zuckerberg wasn't so self-centered and sheltered from the consequences of being so t […]
- ZeroGravitas
Most of the work is shifting from fossil fuels.
Those are becoming more expensive than clean alternatives (renewables, batteries, EVs, Heat pumps), particularly for the 70% of countries that rely on imported fossil fuels.
Now the implosion of the American empire also makes those imports less reliable and more expensive.
America can delay this for a while, but they hurt themselves by doing so. Hopefully one day they realize that.
- musha68k
- rho138
Nah guys, it’s cool, by 2050 the earths atmosphere acidifies for humans and our bodies can’t hold enough phosphorus or calcium for basic metabolic tasks:
- madhacker
Needs a Hail Mary event for humanity to work together