If it takes chinese propaganda to convince the us and eu to give a shit about the impending climate collapse and local environmental damage caused by data centers, we’re the idiots.
You are indeed idiots, if you think that climate collapse is a bigger and more acute threat to EU than the coming economic collapse caused by lack of growth and innovation compared to US and China. More environmental regulations will not help Europe rebuild the industrial base it needs to defend itself against Russia+China without the US.
Ranking an existential threat to our species lower than an economic recession is how we’ve ended up where we are today.
Ranking an existential threat to our species higher than an economic recession is how Europe ended up where it is today. Climate change will not be solved by austerity anyway (quite the opposite). The only thing austerity would accomplish is fade Europe into global irrelevance.
Ranking existential threat higher than economic recession is orthogonal to austerity. If your problem is austerity, complain about that - not climate action. Or, well, inaction.
It is not orthogonal. Economic austerity in Europe is caused by excessive environmental regulations (among other things).
If you ask someone to turn down the heat in your home, and they start smashing all your windows, one might come the conclusion that we can’t afford to turn down the heat because the cost of repairing the windows is too high. Window smashing is still unrelated (or “orthogonal”) to turning down the thermostat.
The enemy of my friend is my…. Frenemy?
It does almost seem like it, doesn’t it?
Would you care more about Google's crime here if you did not suppose China wanted you to care about it?