huh. as a layman, autodesk seemed like an innocuous corporation to me.
if it was just that autodesk’s products were being used by the mining corp, i wouldn’t have approved of it but it would be nothing out of the ordinary.
but instead blackrock owns a significant part of autodesk, and autodesk’s CEO owns a bunch of shares in the mining corp which he sold days after a protest which i assume brought the price down.
jesus christ this sucks so bad
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Sure, I very much agree they could have made it more legible.
TLDR: The gist of it is a compilation of information about Autodesk supplying (uncritically) software to the coal mining industry, the attempts to confront them on that and the vague, general responses they’ve eventually given.
Some of the important points paraphrased here:
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A 12K year old forest Hambach, Germany, is being cleared away with villages etc. being razed in the process as part of coal mining operations.
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Apparently largest coal mine in Europe, responsible for “100 million tons of CO2 emissions per year”.
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Operations are in part driven with the help of the Autodesk software “Inventor”, which until they were repeatedly called out by the activist who made the linked autodesk.earth webpage, they described as a “success story”.
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Multiple attempts to reach out of them have been stonewalled and led to this page/project attempting to make Autodesk commit more to sustainable operations.
Also, A more full (and readable) presentation by the activist of what the project is try to accomplish I found here.
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