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More of Amazon’s own words of courtship to oil companies: “Whether it is finding oil, producing oil, or optimizing production, you can stop worrying about the constraints of High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure cost & capacity.”
Amazon sure knows its audience. Check out this drilling graphic (!), along with use cases in - Drilling - Reservoir Simulation - Predictive Maintenance - Pipeline Monitoring Ohhh, and just what humanity needs: “Reduce the cost per barrel”pic.twitter.com/SSUN4vnn92
In case Amazon’s public fervor for oil companies suddenly disappears and gets traded in for PDF love notes to their beloved fossil fuel costumers, here are more screenshots... if you can stomach it.pic.twitter.com/DvV0t0fgCY
Amazon has a choice who it does business with. There’s a lot of money to be made in the sell of ams, for instance. Yet the company prohibits the sale of ammunition, explosives, and firearms. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/200164950 …
Amazon’s mission: “to be Earth’s most customer-centric company...” News flash: customers are part of planet Earth. Actively helping oil companies burn down the planet isn’t good for customers, and isn’t good for the Earth.
Amazon advertising to oil companies at the Houston airport (someone texted me this photo):
“FUEL THE FUTURE
AWS (Amazon Web Services) Is How”
Hard to put into words how angry this makes me 
. It should read:
DESTROY THE FUTURE
AWS Is Howpic.twitter.com/2oPvOU6IM2
“America is now the world's largest oil producer”, ICYMI This is due to the US shale oil boom which was made possible by “rapid technological advances in drilling.” Amazon’s ad was well placed. TX is the epicenter of the shale boom.https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/12/investing/us-oil-production-russia-saudi-arabia/index.html …
The US is world's largest oil producer. And Amazon is *actively* helping. Maddening.
@JasonBordoff explains how AI is increasing production of oil and gas while reducing costs in this post from May, 2018:https://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2018/05/03/how-ai-will-increase-the-supply-of-oil-and-gas-and-reduce-costs/ …
Why does it matter that Amazon is helping oil companies produce more oil, faster and cheaper? Because if we continue to extract and burn oil, "We're heading toward a global catastrophe that will cause unthinkable human suffering"https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/10/17/13190036/global-climate-change-facts-effects-cartoon …
Most people have a vague sense that burning up more oil is bad for the climate, but don't realize HOW bad. It's reeeeally bad.
In order to have a shot at staying within 1.5° warming, we must "rapidly reduce and eliminate all production and use of coal, oil, and natural gas and invent and scale up negative emissions technology."
2° warming "wld mean rising sea levels, freshwater shortages, reduced agricultural productivity, food stress, & the conflicts & emigration that come in their wake." "A lot of people will die, & not because they burn to death. It'll be because we don't have enough food & water."
The difference "between 1.5C of warming and.... 2C [is] a significantly lower risk of drought, floods, heatwaves and poverty for hundreds of millions of people."https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/immediate-fossil-fuel-phaseout-could-arrest-climate-change-study …
"Climate change could be kept in check if a phaseout of all fossil fuel infrastructure were to begin immediately, according to research." "keeping within the 1.5C limit is possible if radical action is taken immediately."
“Whether it’s drilling a new gas well, keeping an old coal power station open, or even buying a diesel car, the choices we make today will largely determine the climate pathways of tomorrow."
“The hard part is not wrestling with how bad things could get–it’s understanding how much responsibility we still have to make things better.” ~@AlexSteffen
From "Climate change is inevitable. How bad it gets is a choice" by @eillieanzihttps://www.fastcompany.com/90318242/climate-change-is-inevitable-how-bad-it-gets-is-a-choice …
Again: Amazon has a choice. Recall the difference in devastation between 1.5 and 2 warming. Recall that "keeping within the 1.5C limit is possible if radical action is taken immediately." Now recall Amazon boasting it can help oil companies "optimize production & profitability.”
From one of Amazon's public case studies: “Historically, [pipeline] routes were plotted using paper maps, and it would take a month to get a route. With PPRO, now we can do it in about eight hours.” This is both terrifying and sickening given what's at stake.
The climate science is known. The data is known. Amazon knows what's at stake yet chooses to firmly align itself on the wrong side of history. With powerful fossil fuel interests which are hell bent on making as much money as they can while they burn down our future.
More excellent reporting from @bcmerchant's on this topic:
Amazon Is Aggressively Pursuing Big Oil as It Stalls Out on Clean Energyhttps://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou-1833875828 …
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