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Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050

posted by martyb on Saturday January 18 2020, @03:00PM   Printer-friendly

dx3bydt3 writes:

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it aims to:

By 2030 Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975.

Further coverage: from The Verge, BBC, CBC
"direct emissions" but those they may have caused. If they can achieve it though, it will be a positive step.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @05:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @05:30PM (#945015)

    What's your point? Without cutting down trees there would be no development in that region possible. You'd have to build around the trees and moving from point A to point Be would take several times as long as you wouldn't be able to use a truck and would have to divert around every tree and mound of dirt.

    I get that your thing is being incapable of getting the point, but Jesus H. Christ, this is ridiculous. This is a bit like if the cows escape the pasture, putting them back in the pasture and then cleaning up some of the mess. As long as this happens before the cows cause too much trouble, then it's all well and good. But, if you don't bother to do that, then well, it's never going to get any better.

    It's also worth realizing that MS alone is a small part of the problem, a small handful of corporations are responsible for the vast majority of the emissions. But, even with that in mind, if all corporations were committed to going carbon neutral, then any of them going carbon negative would result in an eventual return to previous levels of carbon in the atmosphere.