Guest “I couldn’t make this sort of schist up if I was trying” by David Middleton
A “carbon-free future for all” would also be unsustainable for all. All life on Earth would cease to exist in a “carbon-free future.”
Maybe the folks at Google should Google Duck Duck Go the word “carbon.”
A MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO
Our third decade of climate action: Realizing a carbon-free futureSundar Pichai
CEO of Google and Alphabet
Published Sep 14, 2020A few years ago flooding devastated…
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In our third decade of climate action, we are going even further to help build a carbon-free future for everyone. Here’s how:
*We’re eliminating our entire carbon legacy, effective today.
*We are the first major company to make a commitment to operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy in all our data centers and campuses worldwide. This is far more challenging than the traditional approach of matching energy usage with renewable energy, but we’re working to get this done by 2030.
*We’re investing in technologies to help our partners and people all over the world make sustainable choices. For example, we are investing in manufacturing regions to enable 5 GW of new carbon-free energy, helping 500 cities reduce their carbon emissions and finding new ways to empower 1 billion people through our products.
*We estimate that the commitments we’re making today will directly generate more than 20,000 new jobs in clean energy and associated industries, in America and around the world, by 2025.
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Google
Let’s accept the notion that they mean a “carbon-free energy future for all”… No source of energy or power generation is “carbon-free.” Neither solar panels, nor wind turbines are “carbon-free.” Hydroelectric power plants aren’t “carbon-free.” Nuclear power plants aren’t “carbon-free.” They all require cement and/or steel.
Two of the goofiest climate phrases:
- Carbon-free future
- Fossil-free future
The first is a future without life and the second is a future without death.
Let’s get Ron White’s opinion:
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Sundar Pichai believes in a carbon-free future. This is as likely as discovering unicorns in some distant and uninhabited part of our world.
Elon Musk and many others have observed that people all too frequently mistake education for intelligence. Blackswan author Nicholas Nassim Taleb gives them the moniker “IYI’s”, intellectual yet idiots and writes about this class of morons extensively in his book Anti-Fragile.
“I hate when people confuse education with intelligence, you can have a bachelor’s degree and still be an idiot“. -Elon Musk
You can put most of these Big tech CEO and executive hires,especially Ms Brandt, in the educated-intellectual, yet full-on idiot-moron class.
No, Joel. These are highly intelligent people that are making bundles of money for themselves and their crony capitalist brethren.
If you don’t believe she is an idiot, then you have to believe she is just incredibly greedy and evil. There is not much middle ground.
Yes.
“24/7 carbon-free energy”
At least they’re not hedging with “NET-zero”
As to the phrases: I think most of us understand what they think they mean, but this goes back to something I said on another post: The growing acceptance of imprecision in language is leading to a growing trend of sloppy thinking, and we’re seeing the results writ large in the world around us.
True, Tony. But catchy slogans do help to convince the followers among us.
I believe in carbon being free. They should stop trying to make us pay for it.
David
Perhaps Creationists would welcome a “fossil-free future.” They could avoid the embarrassment of explaining all those pesky fossils and their associated dates!
I’d be interested to read their paper on “Carbon-Free Dating” of life on Earth, personally as a retired single engineer, I’d have no desire to date any Carbon-free female!!!!! ;-))
the world has always needed something to protest over
unfortunately we have now achieved a lemming intelligence
Hopefully like good lemmings they will improve the planet through Darwin extinction
We can start with Google CEO
He is a large source of carbon
His food is made of Carbon and Hydrogen
His servers are a large source
His power cables are a large source
the sooner they bring about the end to this rebellion the better the planet will be for us left behind
I can see the half dozen or more large biz-jets taking off out of Moffett Field near their headquarters, everyday. Those freaking hypocrites make me sick. And then there’s one of the senior big wig’s little Soviet Bloc jet fighter trainer he plays in a couple times a month, must be nice.