https://blog.wntrdev.ca/tags/climate/ Recent content in Climate on WNTRDEV.BLOG Hugo en-us Fri, 01 May 2026 19:35:33 -0400 https://blog.wntrdev.ca/posts/ai-climate/ Fri, 01 May 2026 19:35:33 -0400 https://blog.wntrdev.ca/posts/ai-climate/ <h1 id="the-bottleneck-is-not-cognitive">The Bottleneck Is Not Cognitive</h1> <h2 id="ai-solutionism-as-fetishistic-disavowal">AI-Solutionism as Fetishistic Disavowal</h2> <p>In February 2025, Melanie Nakagawa, Microsoft&rsquo;s Chief Sustainability Officer, published a blog post explaining that her company&rsquo;s emissions had risen 23.4% since 2020, the year it pledged to be carbon negative by 2030. The pledge, she wrote, was a &ldquo;moonshot.&rdquo; Now, &ldquo;the moon has gotten further away.&rdquo; The cause was artificial intelligence. The solution, she wrote, was also artificial intelligence.</p> <p>Five months earlier, Sam Altman published &ldquo;The Intelligence Age,&rdquo; in which he listed &ldquo;fixing the climate&rdquo; among the &ldquo;astounding triumphs&rdquo; superintelligence would render commonplace. Dario Amodei&rsquo;s <em>Machines of Loving Grace</em> said the same thing in a more cautious register. Demis Hassabis has been saying it since 2023.</p>