Yeah my work is promoting ecosia internally. But I feel it's more of a scam. Ecosia is just like Google but a bit of the ad revenue goes to planting trees.
If they really cared so much they could easily donate tens of times that amount to planting trees directly. Because we're talking cents per user per month. That they don't bother at all makes it look to me like virtue signalling without having to actually spend any money.
Considering the late stage of climate change it's too late for this imo. And this kind of initiative only makes people rich while giving companies a reason not to really do something to contribute.
The same way the airlines around here give you the option of 'compensating' CO2 through some fancy commercial scheme. On my last 4000km round trip I could compensate it for 1.57 euros. Most of it will not make it to the trees but stick in 'overhead'. Eh yeah right.. If it was as easy as that we really would have fixed the problem by now.
If they really cared so much they could easily donate tens of times that amount to planting trees directly. Because we're talking cents per user per month. That they don't bother at all makes it look to me like virtue signalling without having to actually spend any money.
Considering the late stage of climate change it's too late for this imo. And this kind of initiative only makes people rich while giving companies a reason not to really do something to contribute.
The same way the airlines around here give you the option of 'compensating' CO2 through some fancy commercial scheme. On my last 4000km round trip I could compensate it for 1.57 euros. Most of it will not make it to the trees but stick in 'overhead'. Eh yeah right.. If it was as easy as that we really would have fixed the problem by now.