🏅It's #CleanAirDay so we honor our favorite corporate polluter: @amazon
Last year, Amazon's own numbers showed its emissions jumped double digits. That's like the world’s largest plane (A380 w 853 passengers) flying from London to Boston. 83,868 times.
🧵 1/x #Streets4People
Last year, Amazon's own numbers showed its emissions jumped double digits. That's like the world’s largest plane (A380 w 853 passengers) flying from London to Boston. 83,868 times.
🧵 1/x #Streets4People
But these emissions are *just* from Amazon brand products, which make up only 1% of products on Amazon dot com.
If all others produced similar levels, the total impact of Amazon on our air would be what the A380 would emit flying London to Boston... over 8 million times.
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If all others produced similar levels, the total impact of Amazon on our air would be what the A380 would emit flying London to Boston... over 8 million times.
2/x
These emissions aren't just numbers. They show up in notoriously underserved communities where environmental injustice is already wreaking havoc on health. In Newark where communities successfully beat back #NoSecretHub, 1 in 4 children has asthma.
3/x
consumerreports.org/corporate-acco…
3/x
consumerreports.org/corporate-acco…
In Newark, 4 of 5 residents are Black or brown.
Months of community organizing forced Amazon to retreat its mega plant, a victory by advocacy groups and union leaders who demanded @amazon agree to labor standards and zero-emissions benchmarks.
4/x
newjerseymonitor.com/2022/07/07/ama…
Months of community organizing forced Amazon to retreat its mega plant, a victory by advocacy groups and union leaders who demanded @amazon agree to labor standards and zero-emissions benchmarks.
4/x
newjerseymonitor.com/2022/07/07/ama…
Amazon continues to target other communities:
Just east of LA, Amazon’s plans to build a 4.1 million square foot mega-distribution site–nearly the size of LAX airport.
Over 1 million trucks a day roll through the region, which boasts the worst air quality in the nation.
5/x
Just east of LA, Amazon’s plans to build a 4.1 million square foot mega-distribution site–nearly the size of LAX airport.
Over 1 million trucks a day roll through the region, which boasts the worst air quality in the nation.
5/x
Communities like ours will continue to challenge Amazon, whose pledges to reach net-zero-emissions by 2040 remain incredulous.
Local coalitions of neighborhoods, legislators, faith and grassroots groups have won by building democratic power over Amazon, and will again.
6/6
Local coalitions of neighborhoods, legislators, faith and grassroots groups have won by building democratic power over Amazon, and will again.
6/6
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