Google has contributed millions of donations to millions of organizations and organizations that have fought against climate change in the United States, according to The Guardian . The internet giant, which claims to be supplied with renewable energy since 2017 and that just a month ago announced the investment of 1,800 million euros in solar and wind projects by hype and saucer, has been playing a double political standard, according with the investigation of the British newspaper.
The list of organizations to which Google has contributed is headed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CIS), a neoconservative think tank that pressured the Trump Administration to abandon the Paris Agreement and has been lobbying the White House to dismantle the environmental protections of the Obama era.
Donations to the CIS contrasts with the official position of Google , which expressed its "disappointment" over President Trump's decision to abandon the global agreement on climate change. The company has specified that collaboration with the CIS and other similar organizations does not imply "support for its political agenda," according to The Guardian .
Other giants such as Amazon have also contributed to the annual CIS gala seeking to influence "technology policy" and deregulation sponsored by conservative legislators, beyond the differences that may exist in the issue of climate change.
The list of "beneficiaries" of Google also includes the State Policy Network (SPN), which has created a website of the so-called "climate commitment", ensuring that the environment has improved and that "there is no climate crisis ". The SNP supports conservative groups such as the Heartland Institute, which has been questioning the science of climate change for decades and has recently instigated the campaign against Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, calling her young followers " hysterical about the delusion of climate ."
Another of the groups to which Google has contributed is the American Conservative Union, led by Matt Schlapp, linked for a decade to the Koch brothers (Charles and David, who died last August), symbols of the fossil fuel industry. The American Enterprise Institute neoconservative think tank , which has loaded the inks against the "climate alarmists", is also on Google's "blacklist", in addition to the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation or Americans for Tax Reform, which has criticized heavily to companies that support climate action
The Guardian's research, as part of a series on the major "contributors" to climate change, has triggered criticism of Google for the contrast between its support for global action and contributions to climate "denialism."
"We are facing a functional" green wash "by Google," said Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and confounder of 350.org. "These technology companies supply renewable energy but do not use their muscle to pressure Washington and force a change in the most important issue of our time."
" This type of donation should be unacceptable, given the perversity with which these groups have been denying the climate crisis ," Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse tells the British newspaper. "What American corporations should do is identify these groups and organizations that are interfering with the climate issue and say clearly: we are left out."
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