"Climate tech is unselfish tech. It’s a gift to the future and to the broad public. It shares its spoils with workers. It requires public action. By contrast, Silicon Valley is greedy tech that is relentlessly focused on the shortest-term returns that can be extracted with the least share going to labor."
— @pluralistic at https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-05-30-posiwid-social-cost-of-carbon-ea59fe4ba150
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Mike Taylor 🦕 (mike@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 08:51:41 JST Mike Taylor 🦕
- Cory Doctorow repeated this.
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cerement (cerement@social.targaryen.house)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 10:14:21 JST cerement
> “Every one of the things you would do to ameliorate [climate change] makes sense on completely separate grounds, they are worth doing apart from [climate change].”
—Carl Sagan, keynote speech, *Emerging Issues Forum* (1990-02-09)
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