> Towards sustainable systems<p>The same words as 'Not sustainable systems'. This does nowhere near enough to create true sustainability. As long as we allow drivel corpo-blogspam like this, we will never be sustainable.<p>You don't build things that must be changed to be sustainable, you build things TO BE sustainable. That is true human centric design.
I have a lot of difficulties to associate future and Google in the same sentence. All I think about is deprecation and shutdown when I see anything from Google.
Well if Google didn't bake planned obsolescence into every pixel phone and chromebook and coerce people to get new ones every two years that would <i>actually</i> do something laudable, but Google Wallet would cry so it's a no-go.
related .. new AI tech in the USA used to make city police services, as venture .. the words they start the press release with are .. yes you know it .. "sustainable". Apparently this word is flexible enough for almost any occasion !
My god, their "Sustainability" section is gross.<p>All the things they're suggesting are essentially programs to <i>figure out</i>, sustainability, and not at all actually programs that implement it.<p>'We're gonna have so many conversations at company-paid dinners about how we could make our business less environmentally-damaging! Aren't we great!? Please clap.'<p>The metrics one in particular is even more gross, because<p>> "This work will enable an apples-to-apples data-driven approach to assess the best approaches to help achieve our shared goals."<p>is just saying that they don't accept current sustainability methods as being 'fair' enough to them- not "apples-to-apples" comparisons- to allow them to consume more and emit more than others like they think they should be entitled to, just because they're larger.<p>Like, no, businesses do not have some inherent right to exist. If your business cannot exist without causing harm, no one has to allow you a 'reasonable' or 'fair' amount of harm to do as a baseline.