Yes, obviously AI is emitting way too much. It shouldn’t even be producing 0.2% of global emissions, let alone 2%. My main grievance is that no one ever talks about improving industrial and agricultural processes even though they produce around 29% of emissions and 20% of emissions respectively.
Once again “general populace” means “people in the United States”.
The rest of us are still in the Paris agreement, and where I’m at one of the most heated political arguments is about emissions from agriculture.