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The planet is warming at a record pace. So why are many companies retreating from their climate targets? (www.cbc.ca)
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So they never actually meant to hit those targets? astronaut-2

Amaize said another reason corporations may appear to be retreating on their climate targets is a phenomenon she calls "green-hushing." That is, as a result of anti-greenwashing legislation such as amendments to Canada's Competition Act under Bill C-59, some companies might be reluctant to tout their environmental measures for fear of being sued for false claims.

A prominent example is the Pathways Alliance, a consortium of Canada's six biggest oilsands companies, which removed almost all content from its website and social media feeds in June in response to C-59.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

Why? Because capitalism only cares about immediate profit and nothing else. That's always the answer

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

no-mouth-must-scream too busy making AI slop no-i-in-pezza

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The most bazinga of the billionaires (and their smuglord stans that sometimes show up here) are now insisting that their treat printers will somehow solve the climate crisis rather than just contribute to it.

It's a fucking cult and it disgusts me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Effective Altruism. :smuglord: :this-is-fine:

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Make the rich richer at a faster rate and le epic Roko's Basilisk might spare you a million+ similations of yourself being tortured. My beliefs are very rational! yud-rational

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Terminal main character syndrome keikaku

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Actual quote I heard yesterday: “I don’t think net zero is possible without AI”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Actual quote I heard yesterday: “I don’t think net zero is possible without AI”

I saw something very close to that from one of Hexbear's local computer touchers: not only are the treat printers supposedly impossible to regulate in any meaningful way, but that they'd totally solve climate change somehow instead of just contributing to it, just you wait. Robot god any moment now. yud-rational

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Just one more data center bro. I swear we’ll eliminate climate change if I can just get my fix.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a race to develop the Torment Nexus before civilization collapses from climate change disasters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The plot of SOMA but it's them trying to launch the NFT machine into space so the value lasts almost indefinitely.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

they can't pretend anymore, so they're dropping the pretense

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Because it makes them more moeny and they realized the average person doesn't give a shit so there's no negative consequences.

Even your standard issue lib is at "do nothing because China exists, even though their per capita carbon footprint is 1/4 of Americans".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also, a lot of what's counted as China's carbon footprint is actually amerikkka's outsourced footprint

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Europe's as well. America and Europe both moved most of their manufacturing to China

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Before: "China's doing nothing, so we should do nothing too!"

Soon: "We should do nothing and leave all this green crap to China!"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

They should be required to advertise their withdrawal as much as they did the rollout.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Comes down to money, like every reason every company does anything at all.

Companies need a legally binding duty to serve their employees and the greater public interest before the fiduciary duty to shareholders if you want this to change, which will never happen. If this became law the stock market and all of the wealthiest people would lose vast wealth overnight, and we know they get their share first since they run the show.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Yes it would require the end of capitalism

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Companies need a legally binding duty to serve their employees and the greater public interest before the fiduciary duty to shareholders

About as realistic as trying to legally prohibit tigers from eating people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree.

A good half measure would be giving employees a major share of all revenue a business generates and the option to buy shares to re-invest in the company for a bigger long term prospect of future earnings.

Today work is just like rent. You show up and they pay you to be there but ultimately the workers don't get a reasonable share of the fruits of their labors, only the ones who own the company benefit, and those they choose through the board of director decisions to receive disproportional compensation. It's a horrible system that only funnels wealth to the minority at the expense of the majority.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Today work is just like rent.

This comparison between bosses and land~~leaches~~lords is a useful one. If you haven't read any Marx, I think you would really appreciate his insights on the exploitative dynamics inherent to capitalism, including the ones you describe. I venture to suggest it would spoil your appetite for half measures.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

stonks-up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hoarding as much money before the collapse