• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    It would also be in stark defiance of Amazon’s stated climate goals, which center on reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

    That’s not lost on the tech giant. But as Amazon spokesperson Margaret Callahan told the NYT, the “world looks different now than when we co-founded the climate pledge.”

    What the fuck? They looked at the world recently and said “yeah, climate change isn’t as much of a problem as it was before”?!?

    • Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      They mean politically, they can get away with this now without blownack, they never gave one single shit about the climate

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        The same company that will same day deliver a single tube of toothpaste to my door doesn’t care about carbon emissions? What?

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      9 hours ago

      “current gov allows us to do anything so we don’t care anymore because that,'s cheaper”

    • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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      11 hours ago

      No, they looked at the blatant corruption from Fatboy McKiddieFiddlers regime and figured, “eh, what’s the point of pretending to give a shit. No fucker has got the balls to stop us from fucking thing up.”

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      It’s those pesky Canadians again, it’s all their fault for mismanaging the fires, not the fact we are cooking ourselves alive.

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      Or maybe “eh, it’s fucked anyways, let’s make red line go up”.