Chris White Tech Reporter
February 17, 2020 3:54 PM ET
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Monday a $10-billion plan to tackle what he says is the most important threat facing human beings: man-made global warming.
Bezos is pressing forward with what he dubbed the Bezos Earth Fund, an initiative he hopes will spur investments to find climate solutions. His statement came as Amazon workers continue to threaten a mass walkout over the company’s supposed lack of climate action.
“Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet,” the billionaire wrote in a statement. “We can save Earth. It’s going to take collective action from big companies, small companies, nation states, global organizations, and individuals.”
Bezos noted that he is providing a $10-billion infusion of cash to kick off the initiative.
“Earth is the one thing we all have in common — let’s protect it together,” he added. (RELATED: Amazon Has Spent Nearly $1.5 Million On Seattle’s City Council Races In 2019)
Amazon employees created a group called Employees for Climate Justice, which published a statement in January updating its plans to allow company employees to speak to the press in September.
More than 1,000 employees walked off their jobs in September 2019 in support of a national march calling on Bezos to do more on global warming.
“Now is a time when we need to have communications policies that let us speak honestly about our company’s role in the climate crisis,” Karen Costa, a user experience principal designer at Amazon, said in a statement in January.
Bezos’s worth fell to $111.4 billion in 2019 after he divorced his wife in April of that year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He lost more money than any other human on the planet that year. He was worth roughly $150 billion before the split.
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Amid all this talk of insect apocalypse, biodiversity crisis and looming extinction, an actual scientific study by the NERC on 5000+ species of invertebrates and plants (plus mosses, lichens etc) finds that between 1970 and 2015, biodiversity has increased in the UK. There has been on average an 11% increase of habitat range.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200217112736.htm
CAGW is a death cult. Looking at life they see only death.
If Bezos really wants to help, the money would be better invested in 4Gen Nuclear research.
Ross McKitrick: It’s never enough with climate activists — even a staggering $10 billion from Jeff Bezos
Observers might conclude activists don’t care about the climate per se but instead want to impose a big-government central planning regime
Who would be the saddest people in the world if a cheap carbon-scrubber were invented? Answer: climate activists.
Read the rest, here:
https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ross-mckitrick-its-never-enough-with-climate-activists-even-a-staggering-10-billion-from-jeff-bezos
‘We Can Save Earth’: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Announces $10-Billion Climate Action Plan
Amazon employees created a group called Employees for Climate Justice, which published a statement in January updating its plans to allow company employees to speak to the press in September.
More than 1,000 employees walked off their jobs in September 2019 in support of a national march calling on Bezos to do more on global warming.
“Now is a time when we need to have communications policies that let us speak honestly about our company’s role in the climate crisis,” Karen Costa, a user experience principal designer at Amazon, said in a statement in January.
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What will Amazon’s Jeff Bezos do with “Announce[d] $10-Billion Climate Action Plan”:
Invest in AI, dismiss employees –> higher efficiency + less CO₂ exhaling.
“As we all know, the continents are forever moving.
What if, for example, the movement of India pushing up the Himalayas really is causing a natural tipping point and changing circulation patterns, which has a butterfly effect?
I don’t know, anybody have any ideas?”
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Redge, could be China sinks under Himalayan pressure and weight.
The meltwaters of the glaciers above that natural pan evaporates leaving the contemporary China a salt desert – no problems with tipping points, the new equilibrium will be: salt deserts.
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Compare: don’t invest in Mallorca:
“search: “Harald Lesch Mallorca”
Did you mean: harald, brharald, lesch, resch, mallorca oder mallorcas?
alpha-Centauri | 17.01.2020: Should you invest in a house in Mallorca?
Africa is coming! At around the speed at which fingernails grow, the African continental plate pushes towards Europe – and folds in the process …
10.01.2020 | ARD-alpha
https://www.br.de/mediathek/video/alpha-centauri-17012020-soll-man-sich-ein-haus-auf-mallorca-kaufen-av:5c361cd305d29e0017ffcfae