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A climate change activist was arrested<\/a> after spray-painting Apple\u2019s 5th Avenue store as part of a protest against Big Tech\u2019s \u201cclimate hypocrisy.\u201d Protestors from the Extinction Rebellion environmental group staged a demonstration at the New York City storefront on Sunday, and one individual spray-painted \u201cBoycott\u201d beneath the Apple logo on the building\u2019s entrance, along with \u201cTim + Trump = Toxic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a press release<\/a> posted after the demonstration, Extinction Rebellion called attention to the appearance of Big Tech CEOs at President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration, including Apple\u2019s Tim Cook, Google\u2019s Sundar Pichai, and Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg. Extinction Rebellion pointed out that the executives \u201conce claimed to be big supporters of the Paris Agreement\u201d but are now \u201cbacking an administration that\u2019s gutting environmental rules and funneling billions of dollars to fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A pair of Extinction Rebellion activists also stood inside the Apple store to call out the company\u2019s relationship with the \u201ctyrant\u201d Trump administration. \u201cApple claims to support climate action. Apple claims to be good for the environment, and they continue to support climate denial, and ICE raids on your community,\u201d one of the protesters shouted. \u201cTim Cook lies and people die.\u201d The protestors followed up with a chant: \u201cDump Trump, Apple!\u201d<\/p>\n

Extinction Rebellion, which has staged protests in New York City<\/a> in the past, brought up the electricity demand that\u2019s expected with the growth of AI in the tech industry, too. Last month, Google\u2019s annual sustainability report<\/a> revealed that its carbon emissions grew 11 percent last year to 11.5 million tons of pollution, and energy usage rose at its data centers. Microsoft is similarly moving furthe<\/a>r from its climate goals as it invests more in AI, which is estimated to consume more power<\/a> than Bitcoin by the end of this year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn 2023, Tim Cook called<\/a> combatting climate change one of the most urgent priorities of our time,\u201d Miles Grant, an Extinction Rebellion spokesperson, said in the press release. \u201cFast forward to 2025, and he\u2019s donating to Trump\u2014the man leading the charge to roll back all climate progress. They\u2019ve betrayed their customers and the planet at the most critical moment in human history.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Apple didn\u2019t immediately respond to The Verge<\/em>\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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