A lot of the hate comes from apple having been a big supporter of the usb-c standard when it was developed, yet they still chose to go the anti-consumer route and stick with lightning for years after they already had a better cable. Now there's landfills of useless lightning cables, while we can still use micro-usb for a lot of other old devices.
I think the confusion might come from a misunderstanding of what the word climate means. Climate is defined as the "long-term pattern of weather" in an area. Cancer isn't really a product of bad climate, and this won't create long term radioactive storms.
I think the 2 points the article makes about that are pretty valid though. It's most probably more than Facebook's revenue in this single country plus it's just the beginning.
Some people have pointed out, that this seems to be a normal vacation policy within Canada. Still a shitty policy, but I wouldn't put the majority blame on LMG for this specific issue.
A lot of the hate comes from apple having been a big supporter of the usb-c standard when it was developed, yet they still chose to go the anti-consumer route and stick with lightning for years after they already had a better cable. Now there's landfills of useless lightning cables, while we can still use micro-usb for a lot of other old devices.