Tech vs. Climate

Illustration with busts of Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Peter Thiel in front of an orange-tinted industrial smokestack silhouette background and over a bottom navy bar with vertical zeros and ones in blue and teal and three large text bubbles with three white dots inside.

About the Series

Leaders of the world’s largest tech companies have for years promised that their products, business models, and personal fortunes would solve the mounting climate crisis. But in this series we show how Silicon Valley executives and the powerful companies they run not only are failing to deliver on their promises, they’re actively making the odds of catastrophic climate breakdown worse.

In This Series

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