It’s easy to talk about benefits justifying the costs when you aren’t the ones actually paying the costs. Not only the tech barons, but also most of their highly paid employees are fairly insulated from the climate crisis, compared to climate refugees, those living in tropical zones, and precarious clickworkers who, even in the U.S., can’t afford air conditioning or easily escape from smoke-choked cities during ever-extending fire seasons.

— The AI Con by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna (Page 160)