More than 1,000 Google employees signed a letter demanding the company reduce its carbon emissions

The letter comes in the wake of a growing movement by tech employees pushing their employers to reduce the industrys contribution to climate change.

Now, this new petition from Google workers is putting sustained pressure on the search giant to change any of its business practices that contribute to climate change.

But critics say offsets dont address the root of the problem, arguing that tech companies like Google need to reduce emissions from the get-go rather than purchase their way out of environmental guilt, as well as stop doing business with fossil fuel companies and stop donating to climate-change-denying politicians.

We, the undersigned Google workers, in accordance with the gravity and urgency of the global climate crisis and its disproportionate harm to marginalized people, call on Google to commit to and release a company-wide climate plan, reads the letter, which lays out four key demands it wants Google to enact and issue a plan for.

Google workers organizing the letter said they were inspired by the work of employees at Amazon, who led tech-worker participation in the global climate strike.

Were energized by the accelerating movement of tech workers demanding that the tech industry take responsibility to correct its role in the climate crisis, said Sam Kern, a UX engineer at Google and signatory of the letter.

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