Posted on 12/18/2018 6:31:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Storm-driven data-center outages, production disrupted by flooding, forest-fire smoke choking workers at the corporate headquarters — already in 2018, Amazon has experienced at least a half dozen notable disruptions to its operations connected to climate change, according to a group of employees urging the company to be more transparent with its response to the global threat.
About 16 Amazon employees, who are also company shareholders thanks to stock-based compensation, have filed a shareholder resolution asking the company’s board of directors to publicly report on how the Seattle-based commerce giant “is planning for disruptions posed by climate change, and how Amazon is reducing its company-wide dependence on fossil fuels.”
While Amazon has taken steps toward reducing its carbon emissions and even has set a goal to one day power all of its global infrastructure with renewable energy, some employees and observers don’t think the company has gone far enough, fast enough. But they can’t tell for sure, and see its recent actions — such as procuring a fleet of 20,000 diesel-powered delivery vans — as unconvincing.
“It’s pretty clear immediately that they’re the least transparent” of the big tech companies, said Rebecca Deutsch, with climate-advocacy group 350 Seattle, which has parsed the climate disclosures and policies of several major corporations and estimated Amazon’s delivery-related emissions. “Based on what they’ve released so far, they’re the furthest behind in trying to transition off of fossil fuels.”
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When you grow an army of pearl-clutching hysterical hippies, prepare to reap the emotional virtue-signalling whirlwind.
The self-destruction of Amazon begins.................
When you sew an army of pearl-clutching hysterical hippies, prepare to reap the emotional virtue-signalling whirlwind.
Nary a word about Amazon reducing emissions by efficient delivery of goods, rather than customers driving to brick-and-mortar stores.
16 employees disrupt a major company?
20 years ago in Silicon Valley you would get fired on the spot.
These are the Obama Robots who demanded that High Tech be more “Diversified”
Yes, but this time the ‘16’ are from the ‘TOP’ down.................
Get rid of all heating and air conditioning in the buildings. Good start.
Trump gives them someone to hate and global warming is a flexible target that can be used for placing blame on anything from droughts to floods and food prices to weight gain.
Nuts. Modern diesel engines are cleaner than ever and are among the most efficient vehicles ever built. Efficiency in this case is the entire supply chain ROI not just the minuscule pollution emitted by a delivery vehicle.
Which, the last I checked, was a key element of what makes Amazon a company. Otherwise they would not have bought 20,000 delivery vans.
566,000 employees in 2017
Meanwhile 6 of them make the news. I wonder what their carbon footprint is....
Number of Amazon.com employees from 2007 to 2017
https://www.statista.com/statistics/234488/number-of-amazon-employees/
16 is not "heat" - 16 is a nuisance.
So what kind of exotic virtue signaling will quell the vapors?
Perhaps their shipping boxes should be prominently stamped “Recycle this box. Do not burn it.”
Title needed Correction
Owwwww. Climate connected incidents. That skerred me a lot. Sounds like bee-z-Os needs to shut it down for the sake of the employees.
Who’s the idiot that keeps posting this Global Warming crap ,LOL
Betcha these 16 didn’t go straight from pulling orders in the warehouse to the shareholders meeting.
Fire those idiot employees.
Like there’s never been fires before, or storms, or flooding. Sheesh.
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