‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
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That’s not arrogance. That’s hatred.
"We thought we could get away with fucking your environment"
They better start arresting these ghouls.
Best we can do is a €40,000 fine to be paid after the project completes.
Should have a pretty heavy fine, like 30~50% of annual revenue of Alphabet to cover the costs of repair in this land. Sadly this is only in my dreams.
They should be held liable for replanting each tree the way someone would be held liable for accidentally toppling a neighbor's
The land cannot be repaired. The activists who have inspected it are reporting that all organic matter has been stripped and shipped out from the plot.
The Finnish People: "Release the Sisu!".
Fuuuucccckkkk. Imagine how many animals lived there
As bad as it is, that's probably not even a square mile. But still, habitat destruction adds to itself quickly. Since they started a new hood by digging out the woods behind me, we've seen a bear and a deer on the street. Not good. They are way too shy to be coming into neighborhoods.
At least this pack of wolves
Google has become pure evil
Could build a lot of guillotines with 250,000 felled trees 🤔
the traditional levers of power are becoming inadequate.
The traditional ones were violence.
I think if the nation-state wants to keep existing as a meaningful power structure, it will have to start merking CEOs or at least get serious about enforcing their damned laws.
Because the wealthy have become more powerful than the levers. Someone 99% tax is looking real good.
They never were adequate.
The difference is they no longer feel constrained by public appearances, which IS a new development. Carnegie was an asshole but he knew that public opinion mattered.
This change is the cancer metastasizing
prove me wrong
not illegal when you're rich
Still illegal, but without consequences.
meaningless distinction
not attacking you, just that fact
Without meaningful consequence, there is no way this evil will change. No morality, no compassion, we are held prisoner by psychopathic corporate interest and we need to address the problem.