Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.
  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11 days

    300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields

    Thanks for the context. As someone who lives in the US, I wouldn’t have been able to put that to scale otherwise.

  • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
    11 days

    This is what happens when corporate crimes are punished with just slap-on-the-wrist fines that can be written off as a cost of doing business. Why should they obey the law? There is no downside to breaking it.

  • JandalsAweigh@lemmy.nz
    11 days

    They should be made to forfeit the land and replant every single tree they felled.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itItaliano
      10 days

      Problem is, once you destroy a forest you can’t easily recreate it by just planting trees. You lost a lot of animals and plants that you can’t just put back