The energy hunger of the people of the world (you and me).
Stopping Microsoft supporting oil companies won't fix reducing fossil fuel usage, we have to look at cause and effect.
The best course of action to reduce fossil fuel usage is to see which processes on earth use that fossil fuel, and see if that can be transformed to use renewable energy. A combination of scientific research, regulation, awareness, education and trying to change human behaviour is probably the best way forward.
Blaming specific companies, for helping solving an energy need, seems not helpfull in that way.
> companies won't fix reducing fossil fuel usage, we have to look at cause and effect.
Group for responsible solar is a fake charity funded by the oil sector that files planning objection to every solar farm in Britain, including noise complaints and ‘they should be on the roofs’ and then objects to the solar panels being on the roofs too, because they ‘ruin the view’.
They’ve made it illegal to build wind turbines on land on UK
They objected to an underground electricity cable to France because it would ‘ruin the landscape’
Oil companies are players, they protect their profits and you are getting played
Ofcourse oil companies are players, this is where regulations and rules are important, governments are also players in this arena.
Is Microsoft a player, like that? I don't think so that much, they only have an active control on there own energy/oil usage.
The only thing that will happen if Microsoft is giving in to these demands of employees, it will be perceived as morally good, and then in reality the oil companies still have a need and switch supplier. All because energy demand didn't change, only morals.
It is like the Maslows hierarchy of needs, but then applied at a world scale, we need to take into account everybody's (humans, animals, nature, companies and other societal structures) needs, and address the problems from the ground up. Otherwise the world will end up in a fighting mess, like what you describe in the UK, fighting solar and wind energy, or those employees of Microsoft, all never actualizing the energy transition.
The best course of action to reduce fossil fuel usage is to see which processes on earth use that fossil fuel, and see if that can be transformed to use renewable energy. A combination of scientific research, regulation, awareness, education and trying to change human behaviour is probably the best way forward.
Blaming specific companies, for helping solving an energy need, seems not helpfull in that way.