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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..
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.
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.
That's the weirdest thing about it. "Green" can be, and is profitable. Why pass up the opportunity to be the front-runners in what could be the new age of wealth?
Apparently conservatives are not only shit businessmen but their also dumb fucks who will believe anything you tell em as long as you throw in some racist platitudes
Conservative governments in Western democracies have always tanked the economy. Always.
For us. Profits go up in the short term for them and their crooked buddies. But unfortunately, you are right.
with late stage capitalism, you get better ROI sabotaging the competition and just generally smashing shit around you. america is filled to the brim with disaster capitalists and republicans being in power is their green-light to finally take their masks off
I like you, but I don't like your words because they make sense. I do wonder sometimes if it is actually late stage, or just 1929 stock market crash repeating with some variations. Or all the market crashes of the late 1800s. A lot of similarities, going up to 1929 people were doing BNPL on RCA radios. Today it's groceries and cell phones.
I will say one thing though, late stage capitalism sounds dark and scary because "the way of life" is going away, which always means we poors suffer and die. The other angle, is maybe something better will finally fight its way to the surface. Not what those billionaire idiots want though. Hopefully it will be as damaging to them now as it was back in the 20th century when they were somewhat put in their place for a century. Capitalism only ever worked if the evil was regularly regulated, as greed is inherent in the design.
Next Stargate reboot ep, SG-1 visits a planet where they have the centennial saving of freedom by vanquishing the evil rich, as told over a few centuries, and only SG-1 can save them this time.
It may become cheaper once they cut all the various safety and environmental regulations
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.