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Amazon creates a $2 billion climate fund, as it struggles to cut its own emissions:
Investment areas: In a press release, Amazon said the new fund would focus on startups that could help it and other businesses achieve "net zero" emissions by 2040. It will invest across a wide array of industries, including transportation, energy generation, energy storage, manufacturing, materials, and agriculture.
What's behind the move? The Seattle retail giant has come under growing pressure from the public and its own employees to shrink its environmental footprint as the dangers of global warming grow. [...]
Earlier Amazon efforts: Several days later, Amazon committed to achieve "net zero" emissions by 2040, which means it would need to offset any remaining emissions from its operations through investments in carbon removal projects, such as forest restoration or carbon capture machines. In February, chief executive Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person, announced he would donate $10 billion of his personal fortune to scientists, activists, and NGOs working to address climate change.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:49PM (9 children)
Outsource and externalize.
Keep Amazon as a shell that takes 45% and let sales and delivery be done by "independent" contractors. Have them collect and submit their data plus fees to ensure timely issuing of a license. Require them to cut emissions 10% year on year. Problem solved.
Then re-imagine the CEO role as more of a President for Life, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas. Zuckerberg can issue Presidential Orders instead of shitty memos and order Congress to answer his questions rather than the other way round.
Where's my $2B?
(Score: 4, Touché) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:58PM (5 children)
Bezos, not Zuckerberg.
(Score: 4, Touché) by DannyB on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:15PM (4 children)
No. Zuckerberg. This brilliant proposal did say Externalize
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(Score: 5, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:35PM (3 children)
The alien parasite that controls them both is a hive-mind.
Once they have transformed the hellishly cold Earth to something suitable for their species, they can emerge and live in the open.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:38PM (1 child)
So it wants you to think. In reality is a single puppeteer manipulating both.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @05:37PM
A dubious distinction.
(Score: 3, Funny) by RS3 on Thursday June 25 2020, @05:33PM
Resistance is futile.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by stretch611 on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:33PM (1 child)
Well, yes...
Amazon could cut its carbon footprint by letting companies like the USPS, Fedex, and UPS deliver everything again.
However, its greed took control and it decided to do everything on its own so that it could maximize its own profit. This created a new fleet of emission spewing vehicles delivering everything from half empty trucks, or from its own contractor and employee vehicles.
Corporate greed > environmentally friendly policies. We know for a fact that Amazon specifically made this choice. It just wants people to blame other things so that it looks good.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday June 25 2020, @04:40PM
If the half empty trucks are costing Amazon significantly less than FedEx/UPS would, odds are they're more efficient and spewing less net CO2. One might argue that FedEx/UPS was funneling profits to their corporate overlords, but those profits translate to things like Megayachts and mansions which also spew CO2 in their construction, operation, maintenance and disposal.
At least with more direct control of their fleet, Amazon has the control to do things like invest in electrification of their vehicles - and if that works on the greed balance sheet (without tax incentives) then it's also most likely a net improvement in overall CO2 emissions. Not that tax incentives for green power were/are a bad thing, they're a necessary kick to get get the industry going, but they do skew the overall efficiency picture.
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(Score: 2) by Kitsune008 on Friday June 26 2020, @01:10AM
It's been sunk into the hopeless cause of educating you. Wasted. Thrown away. Gone.
Now, repeat after me ten times:
"Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
"Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
"Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
"Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
"Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
"Jeff Bezos is not Mark Zuckerberg...Mark Zuckerberg is not Jeff Bezos."
...ad nauseum...
And, you are expected to repay the $2,000,000,000.00 USD that was wasted on your pathetic excuse for an education.
Be grateful that more amends are not requested! Beware!