Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change

Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

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When companies do things like this, it actually hurts their image more than if they did nothing at all.
It's obviously performative, green washing, a line item on a PR budget, not a strategic initiative.
@sleepyfox ...But we'll take the 100m if it does any good at all.
Lord knows we can't count on the government to back research of any useful kind anymore. I don't care if the motives include PR and such.
They could conduct business as usual and not give anything at all.
@tottinge It's like getting an 'employee of the month' award, or a ten quid gift voucher when your team successfully delivers a project that brings in the company several million.
Psychology research shows small rewards are worse than no reward at all for employees.
@sleepyfox I get that, but who would have given it otherwise? It will be put to good use, which unlicensed money won’t.