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Google gave publicity to software project

mardi 21 février 2023 à 10:33

Google gave publicity to a software project designed by Aramco employees to use Google servers to find and repair methane leaks. Did Google do good, or harm?

Repairing the leaks is good but small. Helping Aramco distract attention from its far bigger activities, which accelerate global heating, is harmful. Which one is more important?

The fact that Google specifically acted to get publicity for Aramco's token emissions reductions, which don't compensate for its emissions increases, suggests that this is misleading greenwashing, for Google as well as Aramco.

The article linked to describes other ways in which Google's misrepresents its assistance to Aramco and other planet roasters to deny that they exacerbate global heating.