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.
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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 …
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DESTROY THE FUTURE
AWS Is How
"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."
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“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."
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“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 …Show this thread -
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.”
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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.
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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.
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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 …Show this thread
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