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On one level this is to be applauded. On another, shipping cheap plastic junk from China all over the world, to finish up in landfill a few years later, is the
by abraae 7y ago
On one level this is to be applauded.
On another, shipping cheap plastic junk from China all over the world, to finish up in landfill a few years later, is the very definition of environmental vandalism and is Amazon's core business model.
- legitster 7y agoClimate change is an order of magnitude bigger deal than plastics and garbage.
- dizzy3gg 7y agothe churn of those plastic products and the net cost adds up
- Freestyler_3 7y agoClimate change is an unstoppable force.
- davidw 7y ago> On another, shipping cheap plastic junk from China all over the world, to finish up in landfill a few years later, is the very definition of environmental vandalism and is Amazon's core business model. The systemic fix for this is to tax the externalities (carbon, cheap plastic, whatever) so that prices better reflect the costs to the environment.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoI look forward to Jeff Bezos financially supporting pro climate change candidates for Congressional office who can implement the necessary legislation we can’t fix climate change without (carbon tax, depreciation of financial incentives for fossil fuel production and consumption, tax credits for renewables, nuclear, and EV charging infra, etc). We need a World War 2 industrial movement (“you will no longer be building cars, you will only build tanks and aircraft for the war effort”) to fix climate change, and only nation states have the ability to mandate the effort required from industry. Market forces alone will not be sufficient.
- admiral33 7y agoIf it winds up in a landfill consider that a success.
- scarejunba 7y agoThe real value people like him provide is to make it so that normal people can outsource their sin (and the corresponding indulgences) to him. Someone's got to be buying the cheap plastic junk, my friend. You need a buyer for the middleman to profit.
- keanzu 7y agoHe's our sin-eater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-eater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-eater
- scarejunba 7y agoWhat an interesting practice. Thanks for sharing, man.