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Really shows that Google (and co) are not willing to make some hard changes to fight climate change (besides lip service / greenwashing).

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Google may do many things, but one of them isn't paying lip service to climate change.

https://sustainability.google/commitments/

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/sharing-...

https://techblog.nz/2312-Do-Googles-zero-carbon-footprint-cl...

Google has also invested quite a lot in seamless video conferencing tech way before other companies allowing a large reduction in travel (and carbon footprint) despite a global workforce. These days it's common across tech companies, but it wasn't 10 years ago when they started rolling out GVC.

So is Google saying what's good for thee isn't good for me? You lead by example. These tech companies sell all the tools you need to support a remote work force and then turn around and say a remote work force isn't good for them. What message does that send?

Yep. .* and co will do anything to fight climate change, except let people that drive to an office to sit on a computer all day work from home.

The world had a real shot at making a huge impact on emissions. Really sad to see it slip away because people can't let go of their LinkedIn fantasies of collaborating in an office around the water cooler.

That's a good point not considered. Employee travel must push google from green/neutral to being part of the problem.

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