Google workers double down on climate demands in new letter

Google workers go one step further: they are demanding that their company cease collaboration with any institution that harms people who are coping with the effects of a changing climate. They write that they want no part in the incarceration, surveillance, displacement, or oppression of refugees or other communities affected by climate change.

Google is a global company with billions of users across the world, many of whom are already bearing the brunt of climate disaster, the letter reads.

Google came under fire from 1,495 of its workers in August over a cloud computing contract with US Customs and Border Protection.

It also called the separation of children from their families and their captivity in detention centers immoral by any standard.One of the factors driving recent migration from Central America to the United States is an ongoing drought exacerbated by climate change.

This new letter comes just weeks after The Guardian reported on substantial contributions Google makes to organizations that oppose policies on environmental protection and refute the piles of scientific evidence on climate change. Thats why the companys climate-concerned workers are asking it to do even more and take action to end greenhouse gas emissions completely in accordance with the gravity and urgency of the global climate crisis and its disproportionate harm to marginalized people.

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