2023/04/12

Bloomberg Covers Joanie Lemercier’s Climate Activism Against U.S. Software Company Autodesk

“The fossil fuel industry doesn’t just happen to buy Autodesk’s products the way anyone could purchase Word, Microsoft’s ubiquitous word processing software. Instead, Autodesk courts polluters with industry-specific tools.”
Joanie Lemercier, discussing his campaign to pressure the American software company to end its business dealings with German coal giant RWE. Instead, Autodesk hatched a Lemercier “mitigation plan” that encouraged employees to block or ignore him on social media and provided talking points in response to his criticisms.
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