Is Your Amazon Habit Wrecking the Planet?
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Bloomberg
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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For years, critics have accused Amazon.com for not doing enough to curb its impact on the environment—and recently, a group of Amazon employees joined in to try to force the issue by filing a shareholder resolution. This week on Decrypted, Bloomberg Technology's Spencer Soper takes us inside the uprising. And he'll also ask which is worse for the planet: driving to the store ourselves, or having everything delivered to us?
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| 0:31.4 | On a recent afternoon here in our newsroom in San Francisco, Sarah, can I ambush you for two seconds? |
| 0:38.0 | I walked around with a mic and I asked everyone about their online shopping habits. |
| 0:42.8 | I was wondering if you buy things online. |
| 0:46.8 | I do. I buy most of my stuff online these days. |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.6 | What do you get? We just recently started using Amazon Prime for all of our grocery deliveries. |
| 0:57.0 | It's so much easier considering we have a baby at home and can rarely leave the house. |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, that's right. |
| 1:02.0 | Specifically, I was curious if people had thought about the carbon |
| 1:04.8 | emissions from all their deliveries. Have you ever worried about like the |
| 1:08.8 | environmental impact? We do. Actually yeah there was there was an interesting discussion in our neighborhoods next door and if they felt guilty about it. |
| 1:18.5 | Yeah. What do you think? What do you do about that concern? |
| 1:23.4 | Um, I plant a tree every day. |
| 1:28.8 | No, just joking. |
| 1:29.7 | How many deliveries would you estimate you get a week or a month? |
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