Amazon workers prompt the business to take more aggressive actions on environment crisis.
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Amazon workers desire the business to put more effort into battling environment modification.
In an open letter to CEO Jeff Bezos and the business’s board released Wednesday, 3,541 Amazon workers ask the e-commerce giant to take more aggressive actions on environment modification.
“Amazon has the resources and scale to spark the world’s imagination and redefine what is possible and necessary to address the climate crisis,” checks out the letter. “We believe this is a historic opportunity for Amazon to stand with employees and signal to the world that we’re ready to be a climate leader.”
The team member consisted of an order of business for Amazon in the letter. They asked the business to make a corporation-wide strategy to reach 100% renewable resource in a prompt way, to stop offering Amazon’s cloud service to the oil and gas business so they will not broaden nonrenewable fuel source extraction, to stop contributing to regulators who vote versus environment legislation and more.
In action, an Amazon representative stated the business has actually introduced a number of significant and impactful programs and is “working hard to integrate this approach fully across Amazon.”
“Our dedication to ensuring that our customers understand how we are addressing environmental issues has been unwavering — we look forward to launching more work and sharing more this year,” the representative stated in an e-mail.
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This isn’t the first time Amazon employees voiced their concerns over the company’s business conduct. Last June, the e-commerce giant’s staff wrote to Bezos to stop selling facial recognition technology to US law enforcement. They feared how the company’s Rekognition software would be used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security in the current political climate.
“In our mission to become ‘Earth’s most customer-centric company,’ we believe our climate impact must be a top consideration in everything we do,” wrote the staff. “We have the power to shift entire industries, inspire global action on climate, and lead on the issue of our lifetimes.”
Originally published April 10, 11:13 a.m. PT.
Update, 1:04 p.m. PT: Adds statement from Amazon spokesperson.
