Amazon Shareholders Rejected Proposals on Climate Change
- Mehedi Hassan
- May 22, 2019
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At its annual shareholder meeting, Amazon shareholders rejected all 12 of the proposals presented. Climate change was one of them, and Amazon rejected the proposal despite having more than 7,500 employees supporting the change.
Even though Amazon is doing a decent amount of work to help reduce its carbon footprint, employees believed the company’s effort wasn’t enough. The proposal requested Amazon to develop a comprehensive climate-change plan for the company, including setting emissions-cut goals, and reducing its dependency on fossil fuels, reports Vox.Â
Amazon argued that the company’s already doing a lot to help reduce its carbon footprint, with projects like Shipment Zero which aims to have 50% of its shipments net-zero carbon by 2030. The company also plans to disclose its carbon footprint later this year. But that doesn’t change the fact at all that it continues to rely heavily on fossil fuels.
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"it’s unacceptable for one of the richest companies in the world to continue to take half actions as the consequences of its emissions put so many lives of the global poor at risk." 2/2@Amazon #AGM #ClimateStory #AMZClimate
— Amazon Employees For Climate Justice (@AMZNforClimate) May 22, 2019
Employees actually wanted Amazon to eventually move to 100% renewable energy — not only for shipping all the millions of orders but for the entire company and its supply chains. For a company like Amazon, that’s a big ask that will take years to achieve. And that would be fine in the longer run, but considering Amazon isn’t even willing to start developing a climate-change plan right now is simply disappointing for a company that’s worth nearly a trillion dollar.
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pargon
Premium Member<p>The real problem is that all this is a bunch of BS. It was Global cooling in the 70s, the earth is about to enter a new ice age….then it was global warming and a few decades of that until they finally realized that we've had the "great pause" and cooling now. So "Climate Change" is the next best thing, it covers up that humans aren't affecting the climate at all in either direction and any event can push the communist agenda for more control of our lives.</p><p><br></p><p>Brexit is happening because commies in the EU are involved in what types of tea kettles are legal for the Brits to make tea.</p><p><br></p><p>Good on Amazon shareholders for not letting Amazon's unskilled workers that drop items in a cart dictate terms to the company.</p>
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pargon
Premium Member<p>I love that I got so many down votes, it's a badge of pride for not being a liberal shill. I don't ever downvote anyone, I just move on with my day. Guess I'm not part of the gestapo. This manufactured outrage all around us is ridiculous and not helpful, who would have thought that Thurrott.com would have so many PC police and SJW's? </p><p><br></p><p>I own shares of Tesla, because I believe in the mission to have sustainable energy and transport. I had shares of Solarcity before they got bought out too. Pollution isn't a good thing, China kills thousands a day with their dirty air….but it is not up to the unskilled workers at Amazon to force it near bankruptcy (they already barely eek by a profit most quarters) to promote something that's not true. </p><p><br></p><p>Notice how in the Paris agreement that China and India and a bunch of third world shitholes were allowed to pollute at record levels with no restrictions while America and the EU had to pick up their slack? It's not about stopping pollution and climate change, it's about power. Man-made Climate Change simply isn't true, climate changes on it's own, has done so for billions of years, we are insignificant. Also, CO2 is great for the environment, plant and animal life thrived millions of years ago with CO2 levels over 5 times higher than what we have today. CO2 is not pollution, the reason that the elite promote global warming is to take control of our lives inch by inch, also their beach front property may be at risk if the sea level does rise, but that's a very long way off. Antarctica has been having record snowfall and ice buildup these past few years.</p><p><br></p><p>The readers of this site let me down in their lack of critical thought to this topic. </p>