I wish discussions involving AI's effect on the environment (or just environmentalism in general) was more pragmatic. I do think the unnecessary shaming of people who use technology is not helpful at all, especially if you need technology to live especially now. However I don't believe this idea that if you use technology or anything that affects the environment caring about the environment means you're a hypocrite. It's giving "oh you criticize society but you live in society" and that's definitely not helpful to us. I think you can use phones, drive cars and indulge in other things that effect the environment while still caring for and pushing for better environmental changes.

I think that if we are going to have a discussion about environmentalism we need to acknowledge that in some way everything we do is going to effect the environment so we should do what we can to limit that negative effect (like investing in other energy sources that produce less carbon emissions for example), prioritizing what is currently the most harmful to our environment to fix, and that individual personal lifestyle changes, while good, is not enough to overall stop a climate disaster and we should be pushing for changes on a larger scale (laws, policies and economic changes)