BradleyUffner comments on ‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I'm curious what Finland thought Google was going to do with the 815 acres of forest they sold them? Like, there was zero chance Google bought it in order to keep it a forest. It sounds to me like Finland failed here too and can't pass it all off on Google.

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[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Lots of companies buy land to use as false "carbon offsets". Basically, "we prevent this forest from getting logged so it counts against the emissions we produce"

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[–] christopher@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I wish that wasn't allowed

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[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

different branches of government, some people who are angry are just regular citizens, and some of the anger is directed at not following proper legal procedure (which may have saved the forests)

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