ME: is the carbon footprint of driving my kids to go camping morally permissible if experiencing nature leads them to act more sustainably throughout their lives
GOOGLE: we're draining freshwater lakes to tell people to drink bleach
This is why you have officially been exempted from Retail Environmentalism™. Send one nasty letter, chain yourself to one corporate HQ door, go to one local meeting about water diversion for corporate purposes: it's more important than worrying about your carbon footprint. Unless you have a Humvee.
again it's incredible to me that all of these tech companies are like, it's important that we use all of this electricity and water and also we steal all of the intellectual property in the world so that our products work worse and you can be fired from your job. aren't you EXCITED??
FWIW, a potential answer to the question: If it helps them bond with nature and come to appreciate the fragility of life on this planet, then yes. It is worth the footprint.