I'm one of the Amazon employees quoted in this NYT article.
I want to add to @kateconger's reporting and provide more context on WHY I decided to take this action and to be so public about it.
Climate change is the issue of our lifetimes. 1/Xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/technology/tech-workers-company-stock-shareholder-activism.html …
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Climate change requires bold, visionary leadership of every company and every government in the world that matches the urgency of the challenge before us. 8/x
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Amazon doesn't have a plan for addressing the disruptions posed by climate change, and how it is reducing its company-wide dependence on fossil fuels. I'm hoping the shareholder resolution will help change that. 9/x
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In the NYT article, a rep from Amazon said they "have set a goal to power our global infrastructure with 100 percent renewable energy." When? How? I can't fathom an Amazon employee walking into a meeting without a launch date and milestones for their business plans. 10/x
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From a purely cynical, self-interested standpoint, Amazon would benefit from a climate plan: "There could be $23 trillion of global economic losses a year in the long term without rapid action." 11/xhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/10/tackle-climate-or-face-financial-crash-say-worlds-biggest-investors …
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"This permanent economic damage would be almost four times the scale of the impact of the 2008 global financial crisis." 12/x "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/10/tackle-climate-or-face-financial-crash-say-worlds-biggest-investors …
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For some reason tweets 13-17 got cut off from the thread, so reposting here:https://twitter.com/emahlee/status/1074478027218665472 …
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