Posted on 12/15/2017 6:08:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When Amazon kicked off a bidding war for its second North American headquarters in September, the company laid out a vision of its perfect suitor. The ideal city would have more than a million people, mass transit, an international airport, attractive housing and “stable and business-friendly” regulations.
But the retail goliath apparently isn’t worried about how surging seas, extreme weather and deadly heat waves might affect its operations or the 50,000 employees it promises to hire in its new $5 billion “second home.” The company also doesn’t seem overly concerned with how much its ravenous appetite for energy and reliance on fleets of fossil-fueled delivery trucks are making those things worse.
Amazon made no mention of climate change in its “HQ2” requests for proposals. Few, if any, of the public bids from 238 cities in 54 states, provinces and territories throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico included risks from warming temperatures. Likewise, Amazon refuses to release data on its greenhouse gas emissions, making the Seattle-based giant a pariah among environmentalists who rank it as one of the least transparent corporations of its size.
This year, unseasonable wildfires, 1,000-year floods and back-to-back scale-topping hurricanes made climate change more tangible for many Americans. Yet the nearly $566 billion corporate titan has managed to erect a tent around its circus over a second headquarters to try to keep out the frightening weather. And all the players seem willing to ignore the forecast.
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Why is Amazon seeking “stable and business friendly regulations” while Bezos and Amazon spend so much money and effort to increase regulation and eliminate regions with the very business climate they claim to be looking for???
Because they know it's really bullsh!t. If NYC, for example, really thought their town would be flooded soon they'd stop issuing building permits and start encouraging people to move to higher ground.
***This year, unseasonable wildfires,***
When there are enough wildfires to equal the size of Louisiana, we will have reached the goal of wildfires in 1956.
There’s an island in the Chesapeake Bay that’s slowly sinking. Global warmists believe the water is rising instead, even though it’s only a local rise and not affecting other areas nearby. They should set up shop on the island.
To the moon, Amazon.
Simple answer: regulations for thee, not for me.
“There’s an island in the Chesapeake Bay that’s slowly sinking. Global warmists believe the water is rising instead,”
Sounds like Miami Beach too.
#NotOnMyPlanet #RESIST
The Huffinglue Post is one of my favorite hate reads. Their headlines and stories are so over the top crazy that it’s like taking a digital trip through an insane asylum. I do however feel guilty giving them additional clicks, so thanks for sharing.
Tangier Island. It's not sinking, it's eroding and it's been through many, many cycles of erosion and replenishment. Tangier's not going anywhere.
I thought it was Smith Island. Residents were interviewed about “climate change” during the 2016 campaign and most all of them supported Trump so the story “died” an early death in the news cycle. The good old boys on the Shore would likely prefer to have Hillary sucked up in the swamps of Blackwater in Dorchester County.
Nice attempt by Huffington Post to climate-shame the blue states into not competing for the Amazon site. There are plenty of red states who would be happy to have it.
I think the article was about Smith Island. It was an inconsequential amount of sinking. Don’t really remember all that well, just trying to make a point of the silliness of HuffPosts article
Have you heard of the new 'island' (probably just a sand bar) that's appeared off Ocracoke on the outer banks? Funny how the sea level can rise and islands pop up at the same time.
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