Amazon employees signal the way forward with call for corporate environmental action plan
A significant number of Amazon employees — 5,237 and counting — have signed an open letter to Jeff Bezos and his board of directors calling for the development of a corporate environmental action plan to help tackle climate change. The document, which includes a recommended list of bibliographical references, says: “Amazon has the resources and scale to spark the world’s imagination and redefine what is possible and necessary to address the climate crisis,” adding that now is “a historic opportunity” for Amazon to signal to the world it is ready to be a leader in this area.
The document is an unusual display of activism in a company usually characterized for the low profile of its workforce, and an attempt to pressure management to launch a series of urgent decarbonization measures such as using renewable energies, rather than simply reducing emissions as the company continues to grow, as well as ceasing to work with hydrocarbon extraction companies, as well as not supporting politicians who oppose the fight against climate change.
In addition, the letter aims to distinguish greenwashing from reality, highlighting some of the company’s so-called environmental achievements: the goal of installing 50 solar energy generation units in the company’s warehouses by 2020 has…
