Tell Google: This Earth Day, we demand real climate action.
Google CEO, Mr. Sundar Pichai
Google’s climate commitments are insincere.
They want us to think they care. They hold enough power to really make a difference. But right now, Google is using smoke and mirrors to distract from the most powerful tools they have – but aren’t using – to fight the climate crisis.
They are still ignoring the way that climate disinformation rampantly spreads on their platforms, operating without a clear path to meeting their own green energy and water use targets, and forging sketchy partnerships with Big Oil that make fossil fuels more profitable. Really sending us over the edge, though, is the fact that Google executives are pursuing resource-guzzling Artificial Intelligence (AI) at a pace that threatens to literally undo all the climate progress we have made as a country so far[1].
We make Google what it is – by uploading our Youtube videos, using their email servers, populating Google docs and spreadsheets, and posting reviews on Google maps. This Earth Day, we’re sending a strong message to Google: the time to act is now.
Will you sign the petition to demand real climate action from Google?
Earth Day was founded in 1970 out of popular outrage over the U.S.’ terrible air quality. That people’s movement led to real change, but fifty-four years after the first Earth day, we face the catastrophic effects of the climate crisis, made worse by mega-corporations like Google putting their short-term profits before all of our futures for too long.
Together, we can get Google to prioritize our futures. We need them standing with us for a livable climate.
If Google got their money, their infrastructure, and their products in line with real climate action, they could throw real weight behind the biggest fight of our lives, and help us win. We need Google to divest from oil, gas, and technocentric false solutions. We need them to tackle their climate mis- and dis-information problems on Google Search and Youtube. We need them to develop their technologies at the speed of the sustainable energy and water we have available to us. The actions they are currently taking barely make a dent. Google needs to hear from us – their users, and the people who make their success possible – that we demand it.
Sources:
“AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation – report,” The Guardian, Mar. 7th, 2024.
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To:
Google CEO, Mr. Sundar Pichai
From:
[Your Name]
For Earth Day this year, we are demanding a renewed effort from an industry leader. Your technologies are instrumental in the way we find information, organize our work, consume media, and more. We demand you use your influence to do all you can to cut the use of fossil fuels and maintain a livable climate for us and our children.
Namely:
1. Release an actionable plan for meeting your water use and sustainable energy targets.
2. Reinvest the money you spend on false “solutions,” like carbon capture and offsets, into frontline organizations fighting to end the use of fossil fuels and cut emissions at the source. The untested technologies you are currently funding distract from the change we really need and do not benefit those most harmed by the climate crisis.
3. Invest more resources and determination in fighting disinformation, greenwashing, and climate denial on your products and platforms. You have a responsibility to accurately inform the public climate narrative.
4. End your cloud partnership with Aramco, and commit to ending all cloud partnerships that use your technology to aid fossil fuel extraction.
5. Include AI products in all your future sustainability reporting, and develop it at the pace of renewable energy availability.
We welcome your partnership in ending the climate crisis. Our planet depends on our actions now.
Signed,
Climate Supporters and Google Users