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| Activists strike world's largest e-tailer on Black Friday | |
| 2021-11-26 | |
Hard not to snicker at Amazon being eaten by the monster it helped create.
On what is traditionally the online retailer’s busiest day of the year, the group has blocked the entrance to depots in the US, UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, unfurling banners reading, "Amazon crime", "Infinite growth, finite planet" and "Black Friday exploits people and planet". It says it has targeted the company for stoking excessive consumption that harms the environment and emitting carbon rivaling that of a country the size of Denmark. Amazon has also fallen foul of trade unions in Europe’s biggest economies, which claim the company underpays its employees and evades taxes. In Germany, Amazon’s second-biggest market, around 2,500 employees went on strike at three fulfilment centers, according to the Verdi union, and strikes are also underway in France and Italy. And, in an amazing effort to appease the mob... Amazon did not directly address the protests, but stated that it takes its responsibilities "very seriously," including its aim to be net zero by 2040, but acknowledges that "there is always more to do." So someone has yet to learn that you can never appease the mob - you just make them hungrier like releasing blood in a school of starving [for attention] sharks.. BTW: Extinction is an entirely natural process. | |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #5 Amazon home deliveries must be consuming a certain amount of fossil fuels. Whether or not that is offset by the shopping trips its home customers don't make is unknown |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-11-26 22:33 |
| #4 left eats left lol |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2021-11-26 21:16 |
| #3 My single Amazon item arrived right on schedule. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-11-26 17:20 |
| #2 Right. People stay home for shopping instead of burning rubber, gas, etc and they don't grasp what's being saved. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-11-26 16:50 |
| #1 Considering the 100's of 1000's of customers that were disrupted. Isn't it about time every nation pass a mandatory 5 t0 10 year sentence for international criminal hacking? |
| Posted by: Nobodyhere 2021-11-26 11:20 |