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Spikeygal
October 19, 2020 at 3:21 pm
It would be useful if they paid their taxes, too.
And paid their workers better. Or maybe even treated them decently. How’re those warehouse employees that are having to go to the bathroom in bottles, because they don’t have enough break to walk to the bathroom and back without sanctions? Funny how Amazon warehouses always pop up in communities with high poverty rates, where people have no choice but to tolerate their employment, that at times borders on modern day slavery.
simon6071
October 22, 2020 at 10:47 pm
I have stopped buying things from Amazon and have changed to buying from ebay instead since I saw Amazon commercials supporting the radical leftist plot of Green New Deal with its narrative about man-made climate change (formerly called man-man global warming) and trying to attain ZERO CO2 emission in the USA, which is another way of saying Amazon supports the banning of fossil fuels in the USA only, which is a radical left policy that China, the No. 1 fossil fuel user in the world, would like to see being imposed in the USA as it would destroy the industry, economy ad fossil fuel-powered military of the USA while allowing China to continue to use fossil fuels to power and expand its industry, economy and military.
I call for all patriotic Americans to boycott Amazon until it stop being an obsequious cohort of the radical left.
Austa Albright
October 19, 2020 at 3:24 pm
I think every company and individual must think of the climate and planet in this decade especially.
The Varzoth
October 19, 2020 at 3:32 pm
TWENTY YEARS what a ridiculous timescale, how about you do it in 5, and while you are at it pay some taxes. Oh and stop exploiting your workers quite so badly.
KootFloris
October 19, 2020 at 3:33 pm
Yeah, right. Including the pollution from plastics and chemicals of the stuff they sell?? Or end slavery of the many workers elsewhere? Who believes Bezos?
Jack
October 19, 2020 at 3:42 pm
Absolute lies; the current government there is torching its jungles like there’s no tomorrow.
This is like listening to a drunkards new years resolution; onerous and uninspiring.
Sqrt -1
October 19, 2020 at 3:47 pm
I will return after a few moments to check out all the classic climate denialist arguments.
carlosizz89
October 19, 2020 at 3:48 pm
glad that now finally it’s trendy to actually do something about the climate but we dont have 20 yrs lol
Семён Волков
October 19, 2020 at 4:01 pm
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Robert Callaghan
October 19, 2020 at 4:26 pm
Greenhouse gases went up 45% in 30 years. By 2025: 66% of people will live in water stressed areas. Water stress will threaten 50% of thermal powered electricity. Water stress will threaten 30% of planned hydro electricty. Fossil fuels have been 80% of global energy for over 25 years. Electricity is 20% of global energy. Renewable electricity is 4% of global energy. Solar & wind electricity is 2% of global energy. North Euro solar panels work 11% of the time. North Euro onshore wind turbines work 22% of the time. North Euro offshore turbines work 30% of the time. The F-35 fighter jet works 11% of the time.
From 1971 – 2018 earth heating averaged 0.47 watts/m².
From 2010 – 2018 earth heating went up 46% to 0.87 watts/m².
This is called rapid heat acceleration — or in Olde English, “Ouch that burns!”
By 2040 15% of global energy will be renewable. By 2050 only 30% of global energy will be renewable, assuming all goes well. We must stop burning 50% of fossil fuels in 10 years to survive. This cannot be done. Most solar solar panels will become un-recyclable garbage generating 6 million tons of waste per year by 2050.
*Green Energy Euro Fraud*
In the last 10 years the US cut emissions more switching from coal to gas than Europe did investing in renewable energy.
Europe gets 60% of its renewable energy burning stuff.
Europe burns 80% of the world’s wood pellets for renewable electricity
Europe burns 80% of its recycled plastic & paper for electricity
Europe burns 50% of its palm oil shipments in cars & trucks
Out of earth’s 1.2 billion vehicles only 6 million are electric
Electric cars and batteries will have no positive effect on climate whatsoever
Weather = flash floods + flash fires + flash mobs + flash infections
Climate = 30 years of weather
There are 23 billion chickens on earth, if one sneezes we all get the flu
500 years ago there were so many cod fish John Cabot thought they would capsize his ship
400 years ago there were more Caribbean sea turtles by weight than buffalo on the plains
300 years ago Passenger pigeon migrations would block out the noon day sun
97% of great fresh water species gone since 1970 ( Guardian 2019 )
96% of mammals are livestock and human by weight ( Ecowatch 2018 )
96% of tigers gone in 100 years ( IFL Science 2019 )
90% of elephants gone in 100 years ( Hurriet 2019 )
90% of lions gone in 100 years ( African Impact 2019 )
90% of Leatherback sea turtles gone since 1980 ( Earth Watch undated )
90% of Monarch Butterflies gone in 20 years ( Inhabitat 2014 )
80% of Antarctic Krill gone in 30 years ( Research Gate 2005 )
77% of Eastern lowland gorillas gone since 1996 ( Treehugger 2020 )
68% of world’s wildlife has been wiped out since 1970 ( Mongabay 2020 )
50% of Marine vertebrates gone since 1970 ( WWF 2015 )
50% of Great Barrier Reef gone since 1985 ( Live Science 2012 )
40% of Giraffes gone since 1990 ( NRDC 2019 )
40% less insects in next 30 years ( PNAS 2019 )
4% of mammals are wild ( Vegan News 2020 )
Sources for all these statements can be found at Loki’s Revenge blog on wordpress.
You can also find a massive research library there on how pollution is affecting our youth
*support James Hansen’s monthly private carbon dividends*
27 Nobel Prize winning economists support James Hansen’s private monthly dividends, including:
3,589 U.S. Economists, 4 Former Chairs of the Federal Reserve and ALL 15 Former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers
If I had a nickel for everytime I didn’t know what was going on
I would wonder where all the nickels are coming from
— Loki 2020
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Mike C
October 20, 2020 at 5:40 am
I hate to be a downer but we are screwed.
The level of discipline and intellect just doesn’t exists, in order to bring about the change that is needed
The fact that trump was elected and maybe facing a second term is proof that the inmates are running the
Asylum.
I truly am sorry for sharing this revelation .
Robert Callaghan
October 20, 2020 at 7:37 am
@Mike Ctoo stupid to live, my lament as well
Bart Roberts
October 19, 2020 at 6:07 pm
Lead the target to hit the target. Cap fossil emissions relative to 2019 below 90% in 2021, 80% in 2022 down to 0% in 2030.
It’s what the science says is the right path. It’s where the marketplace is trending. It’s what consumers want. Oh, and you make more money for spending less.
Mike C
October 20, 2020 at 7:48 pm
@Bart Roberts
Suggest you also watch this Ted talks video comparing nuclear to other renewables.,
It was really an eye opening video.
Bart Roberts
October 20, 2020 at 8:22 pm
@Mike C We’re very much agreed on the misinformation. France had been a suspect case for decades; everyone in the industry was mystified by how France’s nuclear costs could be so low. (Well, okay, we knew they were cheating). And then the nuclear audit scandal broke, and those who followed it closely figured out that France had been hiding 70% of the cost of its nuclear, cutting corners, disposing of its wastes illegally at sea, covering up on a monumental scale. What France admits to is awful enough, but the numbers tell us there’s a lot more undisclosed.
It’s worse for petro.
If public servants responsible for permits and licenses to extract or trade fossil emitting materials are persuaded to cap fossil emitting activities relative to 2019 below 90% in 2021 (some say we’re down 17% already), 80% in 2022 down to 0% at a steady pace by 2030 then the transition won’t be “paid for” by anyone. People will just know the real scarcity of the resource and the price of alternatives on the Market will adjust accordingly, with everyone paying their fair share based on the price agreed to by buyers and sellers given those scarcity levels. This is how Adam Smith conceived the Free Market to work. Winners and Losers get picked by the budgets of households, not politburo expert panels who think oil needs subsidy.
Mike C
October 20, 2020 at 10:33 pm
@Bart Roberts
If you have any citation is showing that the French are cooking their books for energy production, would be interested in seeing this.
But could find no articles when I googled this.
Bart Roberts
October 20, 2020 at 11:15 pm
@Mike C MAY 27, 201412:05 AMUPDATED 6 YEARS AGO
State auditor raises EDF nuclear production costs estimate
By Michel Rose
That’d be a start. The problems of France’s nuclear industry have only multiplied over the past half decade.
Mike C
October 21, 2020 at 12:34 am
@Bart Roberts
TY
Julian Coenen
October 19, 2020 at 9:22 pm
And once the hard activism stops they just nicely forget they ever made such a promise
Mike C
October 20, 2020 at 5:35 am
This is all theater.
Sam
October 19, 2020 at 10:51 pm
All that matters is how much less there will be tomorrow than today. Transfering the problem to the next person when you retire is meaningless.
Charlie Buckets
October 20, 2020 at 1:51 am
Does their climate pledge include all the Chinese factories they promote which produce the most toxic waste and pollution in the world?
Unmutual
October 20, 2020 at 11:22 am
Manufacturing in the US was just as toxic. We just shifted the poisoning from our own soil to foreign soil. In effect, our consumerism is poisoning the Chinese.
Trade Prosper
October 20, 2020 at 2:15 am
Pushing to 24 hour delivery increased emissions short term. Why not default to 2 day and save now?
Saucy Wench
October 20, 2020 at 3:35 am
Maunder Minimum.
Mike C
October 20, 2020 at 5:37 am
Minute cranium .
Ed Ok
October 20, 2020 at 9:10 am
Well ok then
Ed Ok
October 20, 2020 at 9:14 am
And you can, I see things changing if you bro do your part
Unmutual
October 20, 2020 at 11:19 am
You can not keep consumer driven capitalism(or socialism, or communism) AND have a healthy planet. This is nothing but greenwashing. This BS is how we feel good while the planet burns. This crap that you’re trying to force down my throat makes me want to use Amazon less. Oh, yeah, and treat your employees like they’re actual humans.
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