Well to be fair if we just go full ham with crypto mining and so called AI, we'll belch enough GHGs into the atmosphere that the actual climate apocalypse will come within 20 years or so, wiping out most of human so called civilization, which will put the climate on a path to resetting over the next couple hundred thousand years.

Solved!

Sounds like an Onion Article.

Obviously this statement underscores the fact that Google has too much power. Break those motherfuckers up!

Let's unshackle him from his wealth and use that to help meet climate goals.

The problem is a confluence of flaws related to capitalism and psychology that allows guys like these to be as they are, gives them ample opportunity to speak, and compels others to listen.

Eric Schmidt and people like him have so much money and influence that they're presented the opportunity to sit down with policy makers and use media as a megaphone to the point that his voice alone is louder than tens of millions of dissenters and the collective group is able to speak over the entire scientific community.

We've normalized it to the point that he can pitch an idea that is as existentially catastrophic as this, and the article writer spins it as some profound statement worthy of deeper discussion.

The CEO of Starbucks attempted to justify flying across state in a jet in order to commute to work, and a lot of people either accept it as some sort of tenet of capitalism or attempt to play the devil's advocate as to why something like that would be deemed necessary by a person. And while he's doing that, he's not univerally lambasted for it, policy doesn't change to prohibit that, and we just squabble amongst ourselves about the merits or necessity.

But as long as guys like these continue to receive money, they and their lobbyists will be chanting the same mantra

Former CEO, current inhumane grifter chud, Eric Schmidt, who has been featured in a recent series of "saying the quiet silicon valley executive thought out loud"

Right, let's solve our biggest problem by unfettering capitalism, and definitely will not just further concentrate power and wealth.

Not with that attitude, no... asshole! Unshackle AI companies? I'd rather guillotine them.

The climate goals are meetable.

If we want to.

Unless AI forces us to do stuff that we know for decades to be necessary, nothing will change, except a massive amount of additional energy that we need to power the AI.

AI solution:

AI will not find a magic solution. Besides, we already have quite a few directions that would help, but we're not acting on them. Pilling more "solutions" over them won't change that.

This really sounds like the parody of rich people that think they can eat and breath safely as long as they have money, the rest of the world be damned.

Well this is the most dumb thing I've read all morning

Isn't this a fairly standard sci-fi plot?

AI: Kill humans off, problem solved.

I have a better idea. Let's drop climate conservation, use a load of fossil fuels to fire him in a rocket directly into the sun! Then, resume climate conservation.

This is escapism. Escapism that makes him money.

He just wants to run his ~~AI datacenters~~ gold mines, climate be damned. And looks like he himself sees AI as some kind of magic bullet, typical exec syndrome.

This is like Satan saying "We're not going to be able to deal with mass corruption. Just burn everything. That's the solution."

That's an interesting idea... Satan...