Aesthesiaphilia

The carbon tax is supposed to (partially) go towards credits for EVs

There's plenty of EVs with 300+ miles of range now. Shouldn't be an issue.

carbon sequestration is not ever going to work

I don't know what you're talking about, it's a thing that is currently being done. Not some future hypothetical tech.

But yes it is too expensive for now. Costs are coming down hopefully that continues to be the case.

And yes, the best, cheapest, most efficient way to reduce ghg is to eliminate fossil fuels.

Instead of offsets, companies should be pursuing direct carbon sequestration like with https://climeworks.com/

No estimates, no accounting magic. Just a direct measure of physical, measurable tons of carbon directly removed from the atmosphere.

Surveillance state.

Water is extremely important in most large scale cooling systems, whether it be swamp coolers (aka evaporative cooling) or traditional HVAC (aka chillers).

Not to mention a much higher carbon footprint.

The reason evaporative coolers are cheap is because they use a fraction of the electricity that chillers do.

And note that the majority of data center water usage is indirect via power generation, so using less water on site but more indirectly by consuming more power is both more expensive and less efficient.

Unfortunately, evaporative coolers are the best way to go, for now.

I hate the fact that those dna samples will 100% end up in a government database of bioanalytics used to further spy on citizens.

100%. One of the reasons I didn't join a union as a skilled worker is that I don't want to be locked into doing the same exact thing for the rest of my career.

Good for them! I'm glad they got an excellent contract!

But we need to keep in mind that "and benefits" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I looked at the contract, the pay is something like 30-40 an hour. Good, definitely a living wage, but not $170,000 good. People see that number and think it's the salary.

I hope we get to that point too.

Most efficient route for an individual to get from A to B. Probably the least efficient as a standard for society when you factor in carbon emissions.