Jeff Bezos unveils plan to help tackle climate change

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled a sweeping plan Thursday to tackle climate change, committing the retail giant to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement 10 years ahead of schedule.

He also pledged to measure and report the company’s emissions on a regular basis, implement decarbonization strategies and alter its business strategies to offset remaining emissions.

Bezos expects 80% of Amazon’s energy use to come from renewable sources by 2024, up from a current rate of 40%, before transitioning to zero emissions by 2030.

He also pledged to measure and report the company’s emissions on a regular basis, implement decarbonization strategies and alter its business strategies to offset remaining emissions.

Bezos expects 80% of Amazon’s energy use to come from renewable sources by 2024, up from a current rate of 40%, before transitioning to zero emissions by 2030.

“We want to use our scale and our scope to lead the way,” Bezos said at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “One of the things we know about Amazon as a role model for this is that it’s a difficult challenge for us because we have deep, large physical infrastructure. So, if we can do this, anyone can do this.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/jeff-bezos-unveils-sweeping-plan-to-tackle-climate-change/ar-AAHxpxA

Waiting for Trump's anti-Bezos Twitter screed.

[Me.]

1. Good Start

Good example

[saidsimplesimon]

2. "So, if we can do this, anyone can do this."

"Yes, we can."

Thank you for sharing this.

[PETRUS]

3. Jeff Bezos offers gauze and aspirin to decapitation victims. nt

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4. Rampant consumerism, which Amazon depends on, is driving climate change

In a world serious about fighting climate change, companies like Amazon would not be viewed as good investments. As I've said in the past, real action to keep us below 2C would be viewed (rightly so) as draconian and authoritarian.

However, since we live in a world where we don't actually care about such things, we can greenwash our guilt away by using renewable energy to keep consuming nonrenewable resources at a prodigious rate.

[hatrack]

5. Jeff Bezos plans to go live in outer space . . .

Who gives a shit what this sociopathic clown says or does?

More greenwash, more spin, more bullshit.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Then trash the thread if you don't like it

[hatrack]

9. Here's Bezos, who apparently considers himself an authority on space colonization . . .

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Further, developing space technologies is critical for human beings to have a long future, Bezos says. “We humans have to go to space if we are going to continue to have a thriving civilization,” Bezos says. “We have become big as a population, as a species, and this planet is relatively small. We see it in things like climate change and pollution and heavy industry. We are in the process of destroying this planet. And we have sent robotic probes to every planet in the solar system — this is the good one. So, we have to preserve this planet.”

To do that will require being able to live and work in space, says Bezos.

“We send things up into space, but they are all made on Earth. Eventually it will be much cheaper and simpler to make really complicated things, like microprocessors and everything, in space and then send those highly complex manufactured objects back down to earth, so that we don’t have the big factories and pollution generating industries that make those things now on Earth,” Bezos says. “And Earth can be zoned residential.”

It will be “multiple generations” and “hundreds of years” before this is a reality, Bezos said on CBS, but with Blue Origin he is working to develop the technology that will make it possible. People will be able to live in space (in self-sufficient space structures) if they so choose, Bezos says. “People are going to want to live on Earth, and they are going to want to live off Earth. There are going to be very nice places to live off earth as well. People will make that choice,” Bezos says.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/why-jeff-bezos-spends-billions-on-space-technology.html

We don't have "multiple generations" and we don't have "hundreds of years". Hell, we don't even have a rocket capable of leaving low Earth orbit. But somehow, he's going to keep his ever-expanding business expanding (with zero climate impact) so that we can all go live in a Popular Science article from 1962.

Whatever, Jeff.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. You're another to add to my ignore list

The topic is global warming not your personal grudge against Bezos.

I don't need your trolling.

[hatrack]

11. Knock yourself out . . .

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[Reader Rabbit]

7. Unless it involves Bezos paying his damn taxes, I don't want to hear it.

This greedy SOB doesn't get to ride in on a white horse on the issue of climate change when he treats his workers like crap and stiffs the American people by weaseling out of his responsibilities as a citizen.

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8. See #6

And welcome to ignore