The carbon removal trade is simply beginning to take off, however some consultants are warning that it’s already headed within the fallacious path. 

Two former staffers of the US company answerable for advancing the know-how argue that the profit-driven trade’s give attention to cleansing up company emissions will come on the expense of serving to to tug the planet again from harmful ranges of warming.

They warn that carbon dioxide removal isn’t a product that any individual or firm “wants,” within the conventional market sense. Relatively, it gives a collective societal good, in the way in which that waste administration does, solely with bigger world stakes. Learn the total story.

—James Temple

Yahoo’s decades-long China controversy and the duty of tech corporations

Again within the early 2000s, Yahoo was working a well-liked search engine and electronic mail service in China, and it was one of many first tech corporations to be discovered sharing person info with the Chinese language authorities, resulting in the imprisonment of quite a few Chinese language residents.

The ensuing consideration and subsequent lawsuit towards Yahoo from the households of two political prisoners landed a giant blow towards the corporate. However the penalties of the corporate’s actions are nonetheless very a lot felt at this time—and we’re nonetheless studying about how Yahoo failed to assist the very cyber dissidents it was speculated to be defending. Learn the total story.

—Zeyi Yang

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