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> 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 van
by 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.