Paris turning it into into a cylcing city is probably medically better then anything google ever did. It will have effect on all other French cites, as it always does with Paris.

Those kinds of changes have far larger impact that anything related to what most tech companies do.

I don't really care that Europe isn't leading in Self-Driving cars or Air-tax or whatever the latest investor dream is.

The reality is we already have the technology to solve most of the major issues in regards to climate change and health.