“How will we tell our children that we knew we had such a small window to leave fossil fuels in the ground?” Watch this Amazon employee confront Jeff Bezos over inaction on climate changepic.twitter.com/yqsb6YZEbe
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Thanks for your reporting,
@MadisonMills. Watch full version embedded in this piece by:@pasternack at@fastcompany: https://www.fastcompany.com/90354389/the-dramatic-moment-when-an-amazon-worker-asked-jeff-bezos-to-protect-planet-earth … Read the speech: https://medium.com/@amazonemployeesclimatejustice/speech-to-jeff-bezos-during-annual-shareholder-meeting-7cf3d8a9a93b … Read our open letter:https://medium.com/@amazonemployeesclimatejustice/public-letter-to-jeff-bezos-and-the-amazon-board-of-directors-82a8405f5e38 …
Amazon is actively helping fossil fuel companies “churn out more oil” when the science is known that we must keep oil and gas in the ground to avoid catastrophic warming. I documented our romance with oil and gas companies and why it matters here:https://twitter.com/emahlee/status/1104218682253729792 …
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Amazon's 100% renewable energy goal is meaningless without a date. Winning slowly is the same thing as losing with the climate crisis. Employees have to give dates. It would be unfathomable for an Amazon employee to walk into a meeting about a new product without a launch date.
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It's also dishonest for Amazon to have a goal of "100% renewable energy" without a date, especially when timelines determine the amount of devastation in a rapidly warming climate. 1.5 vs 2 degrees... even half a degree warming threatens the lives of tens of millions of people.
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