We can see why a person might want to entrust the Amazon to more responsible hands. But surely we can all agree: Those hands do not belong to Jeff Bezos
Something doesn’t feel right here. Photo: Getty Images The Amazon rain forest is still burning. In August alone, at least 26,000 fires ravaged one of the world’s most complex and varied biomes. That already-too-high figure becomes even more devastating when you consider that about halfway through 2019, Brazil had already clocked an 84 percent increase in infernos from 2018. To say the situation is dire would be an astounding understatement.
This week, a viral pitch began making the rounds online. Ostensibly the work of some anonymous climate activists in conjunction with NowThisNews, it asks a small favor of Amazon’s CEO: Buy the rain forest that gave your company a name, and just … hold onto it for us.The other one.Buy it, then don’t touch it.Protect the indigenous peoples whose knowledge is priceless.Now is your chance to give something back to the rainforest that gave you a name and so much more.
Within his own company, Bezos seems to prize profits far above the climate implications of his business practices — the dizzying volume of packaging required to ship billions of Prime orders each year, the carbon emissions required to fulfill all those next-day deliveries, and the division of Amazon that works with oil companies to promote fossil fuel extraction.
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