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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: 2) by toddestan on Saturday June 27 2020, @02:56AM
That's simply not true. Modern airplanes get about can get about 80-100 MPG per person if they fill all the seats. This is, of course better than any ICE vehicle, but the thing that people who make this comparison like to conveniently leave out is that cars can also transport more than one person too. If you can fill most or all of the seats in a most any modern car, you'll get better mileage numbers per person than an airplane. For something like a Prius with 4-5 people, you're easily twice as efficient as the best airplanes. Even a large 3-row gas hog of an SUV like a Suburban can approach airplane numbers if you've got all seats filled.
The other problem with airplanes is that they dump their pollution in the upper atmosphere where it can do more harm.