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Jeff Bezos announced $10bn donation to his Earth Fund this morning. Our statement:

“The international scientific community is very clear: burning the oil in wells that oil companies already have developed means we can’t save our planet from climate catastrophe.
As history has taught us, true visionaries stand up against entrenched systems, often at great cost to themselves. We applaud Jeff Bezos’ philanthropy, but one hand cannot give what the other is taking away.
The people of Earth need to know: When is Amazon going to stop helping oil & gas companies ravage Earth with still more oil and gas wells?
gizmodo.com/how-google-mic…
When is Amazon going to stop funding climate-denying think tanks like the Competitive Enterprise Institute and climate-delaying policy?
medium.com/@amazonemploye…
When will Amazon take responsibility for the lungs of children near its warehouses by moving from diesel to all-electric trucking?
curbed.com/2018/11/20/181…
Why did Amazon threaten to fire employees who were sounding the alarm about Amazon’s role in the climate crisis and our oil and gas business? What this shows is that employees speaking out works--we need more of that right now.
#AMZNSpeakOut

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Will Jeff Bezos show us true leadership or will he continue to be complicit in the acceleration of the climate crisis, while supposedly trying to help?"
Our statement in full:
docs.google.com/document/d/1Z7…
As employees, here is our statement to Jeff Bezos' Earth Fund announcement (as an image):
Bezos' announcement shows how effective it is when employees speak up about climate change.If you’re like us, worried about climate change and how your company is helping fossil fuel industry,you could try what we did: Sign a letter with coworkers! Start having meetings!Walk out!
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THREAD/ Jeff Bezos and Amazon executives are threatening to fire a few members of our group after we spoke up about wanting our company to be a leader in the worldwide effort to avert climate catastrophe.
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How will the world remember Jeff Bezos in the era of climate emergency? Will he use his immense economic power to help, or not?Please tell @Amazon and @JeffBezos: Our world is on fire & desperately needs climate leadership. Stop silencing employees who are sounding the alarm. 2/
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"Incremental steps are no longer acceptable in this time of climate emergency," says @emahlee "Almost 7,700 Amazon employees understand that Amazon must have a comprehensive plan that matches the scale and urgency of the climate crisis." @Amazon #AGM #AMZNClimate
"Speed is everything. Without bold, rapid action we will lose our only chance to avoid catastrophic warming. There’s no issue more important to our customers or our world than the climate crisis, and we are falling far short." -@emahlee @Amazon #AGM #AMZNClimate
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ISS and Glass Lewis (GL), the two largest proxy advisors to institutional investors, recommend voting YES on our resolution, which asks Amazon to release a company-wide climate change plan with plans for transitioning off fossil fuels! This is huge. 1/7
drive.google.com/file/d/1o5V6pY…
These prominent advisors for institutional investors disagree w/Amazon leadership's stance. GL: Amazon "could be subject to significant risks with respect to both climate change and the regulatory implications or investor pressures that come as a result of climate change.” 2/7
Glass Lewis: “The Company has provided some level of disclosure concerning some of its environmental initiatives, but we find this disclosure to fall short in many respects.” 3/7
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