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Washington Post gutting its climate team | Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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Get any an all relatives you have to stop using Amazon, if they do.
My mom is off the grid and she has me order things through Amazon for her occasionally.
Am gonna have to talk to her and see if I can get the items she likes, from different sources.
Even if you do stop using Amazon directly, AWS is their real money maker and still runs an obscene amount of the internet.
We should probably boycott the Internet.
Boycotts are notoriously ineffective, especially if they aren't organized, especially if they don't have a set goal. Boycott all you like but don't waste your valuable energy you could be spending organizing, getting involved in local advocacy, joining/building a union and preparing for the revolution - it's coming sooner or later
Oh yeah.. but NGL, it's the little actions that can snowball. If I can get mom to get her friends groups to move away from Amazon (she only found the items she likes by hearing from a friend that uses Amazon) and opt for secondary sources.. I'll start with that and for sure, am already networking with friends and businesses locally to get people engaged in stopping this goose-stepping march into the 4th Reich we're on..
It's so silly. Even if you don't understand the science of climate change (which isn't that fucking hard to understand) you can definitely understand this;
- Solar PV + Battery: ~2.0–2.7 USD/W (2.4~ $/kW)
- Solar PV standalone: ~1.33–2.74 USD/W
- Wind (onshore): ~1.46–5.9 USD/W
- Hydro: ~3.0–5.9 USD/W
- Coal: ~3.1–5.5 USD/W
- Natural Gas (combined cycle): ~1.06–1.2 USD/W
- Oil/peakers (simple turbines): ~0.8–2.6 USD/W
- Nuclear: ~6.7–8.0 USD/W
Even with batteries solar has the greatest fricken ROI in this list at the cheapest cost.
Fossil fuels are finite. After you pay back your solar panel capex your opex is barely anything and for the next 20-30 you have free fucking energy.
Jeebus, even if you don't give a shit about the environment picking anything but renewables is like the dumbest decision you can use your money on.
It may become cheaper once they cut all the various safety and environmental regulations
Like the NYT, they weren't that reliable on it either way.
In general, if journalists took climate change seriously, most of media would be about it; most screens would be half about it, with tickers and banners constantly on it. The anti-alarmists are the half-assers who took the air out of it.
A big joke about these mainstream publications is how quickly they'd open their pockets to accept fossil fuel industry native advertisement money. WaPo, NYT, WSJ, The Economist, et al - they'd always have some kind of AEI industry flak or Heartland Institute goober or Saudi stooge pen an Op-Ed about how fossil fuels are inescapable and alternatives don't work / cost too much / have a secret downside orders of magnitude worse than O&G.
It was the same "We Report, You Decide" bullshit that FOX News played out in big bold letters for their rube base. The fishwrap editions just knew how to play their cards closer to the chest.
They're already talking about just taking Greenland, and probably Antarctica. Climate change is locked in.
Bezos’s conscience died decades ago
They do buy a lot of electricity generated by wind and solar. They also buy a huge amount generated using fossil fuels. Amazon got kicked out of the Science Based Targets Initiative because they weren't willing to actually go ahead with getting off of fossil fuels.
Absolute ghoul.
Can't wait to watch the Seattle Kraken play at Climate Pledge Arena, which Amazon bestowed that name upon.