I don’t think it’s surprising - some people already consider the actions of AI execs and tech companies to be synonymous to violence. Like, comparing something like this to destroying the livelihoods of millions of people, a lot of people would consider the latter far worse.
Temperature is certainly going up, but it definitely hasn’t reached historic levels yet lol.
I do not think that marketing products and services that do useful work is “violence.”
Structural violence is the term most commonly used for this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence