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[โ€“] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the word "relatively" in the previous comment is doing some heavy lifting.

If you are going to spend a few hours of your limited free time to plant the shrubs, even if the materials and transportation are free to you, compare that with the relative cost of a small environmental fine to a trillion dollar company building a billion dollar data center.

The people at the top might not even realize anything happened, if anything even does happen.

[โ€“] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I guess the important thing is to treat hypothetical outcomes as certainties and base debates on them.