▲ 316 ▼ Finnish police have now launched a criminal investigation into Google's alleged environmental destruction of 250,000 trees at the construction site of the company's planned data center in Finland (yle.fi) submitted 1 week ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (2 children) They should set a precedent here. $1 billion per tree permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Vogons@fedinsfw.app 13 points 1 week ago (1 child) Something fun about Finland is that most of their criminal Justice system has "day fines", i.e. the fine is based on losing a day's labour etc. I have no idea if that holds true for corporations but if so... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca 1 point 9 hours ago I am a fan. I think these should apply to companies as well. Imagine if the fine was "three months revenue because that's the wasted time it costed people". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Vogons@fedinsfw.app 13 points 1 week ago (1 child) Something fun about Finland is that most of their criminal Justice system has "day fines", i.e. the fine is based on losing a day's labour etc. I have no idea if that holds true for corporations but if so... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca 1 point 9 hours ago I am a fan. I think these should apply to companies as well. Imagine if the fine was "three months revenue because that's the wasted time it costed people". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca 1 point 9 hours ago I am a fan. I think these should apply to companies as well. Imagine if the fine was "three months revenue because that's the wasted time it costed people". permalink fedilink source parent