Jeff Bezos has decided to throw his hat in the ring with the propaganda police. He has pledged 10 billion dollars to pay for bad science, climate activists, and social control agendas (namely the deranged regulations that Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace have been pushing).

In an editorial in the Guardian dated Dec 02, 2019, Rupert Neate called-out Amazon along with Facebook, Google, Netflix, Apple, and Microsoft, accusing them of “aggressively avoiding” $100bn (£75bn) of global tax over the past decade.

He wrote that the six companies listed above had all been named in a report by the tax transparency campaign group Fair Tax Mark as avoiding tax by shifting revenue and profits through tax havens or low-tax countries, and for also delaying the payment of taxes they do incur.

“The report singles out Amazon, which is run by the world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, as the worst offender. It said the group paid just $3.4bn (£2.6bn) in tax on its income so far this decade despite achieving revenues of $960.5bn and profits of $26.8bn. Fair Tax Mark said this means Amazon’s effective tax rate was 12.7% over the decade when the headline tax rate in the US has been 35% for most of that period.”

So, is this misplaced philanthropy a sincere attempt to address a “pressing world issue”, an elaborate publicity stunt, or yet another tax dodge for Jeff and the Amazon crew?

According to Steven Musil in his Guardian article dated February 18, 2020, Bezos announced his Climate Pledge, in September, stating that he would make the sprawling e-commerce and tech company carbon-neutral by 2040 and reach a goal of the Paris climate agreement 10 years early.

“To reach the carbon-neutral goal, Bezos announced a new $100 million reforestation effort and a new order for 100,000 electric delivery vans to move away from diesel vehicles. Amazon also pledged to power its global infrastructure with 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% by 2030 — up from the 40% renewable energy it uses today.

Amazon took a bold step when it announced the Climate Pledge, committing the company to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early, and we’re incredibly excited about the Bezos Earth Fund,” an Amazon spokesperson said. “Jeff’s passion and this extraordinary personal contribution to the fight against climate change are going to have a huge impact.”

The first part of the pledge at least seems laudable enough, 100 million for forestry, but are those woodlands going to be maintained and the fuel load on the ground kept in check, or are they going to be mismanaged like the great tracts of forests in Portugal and Australia which lead to the devastating and well published “bush-fires”?

The second element of his pledge is going to be perhaps the most challenging and controversial. The average fleet vehicle has a lifecycle of 5-10 years which makes me think that Jeff might be pulling a public relations stunt here. Electric cars have a huge carbon footprint, due to their batteries and other manufacturing needs. A conventional vehicle with approximately 6 years road-life has a similar carbon footprint to an electric car fresh from the factory floor. Also because of how most electricity is generated, electric cars actually produce more CO2 than your average diesel. Which makes one think, if CO2 is really such a problem – perhaps electric cars aren’t such a good idea after all…

Finally, Jeff’s rhetoric about renewable energy is I believe his biggest mistake, because in a cooling world solar and wind power are just not going to cut the mustard. They’re unreliable and environmentally damaging. There are major issues surrounding the inability to recycle these technologies as well as the rare earth element mining involved in their manufacture, which has huge carbon footprint issues.

Which begs the question, is CO2 really the driving force behind this virtue signalling by Jeff?





Used wind turbine blade anyone? No? Then to landfill it is…



So, without getting into the science of AGW and why Jeff might be wasting his money (this site has posted more than enough articles to prove that CO2 is not the driving force in our climate and neither is humanity – it’s the sun), it is my conviction that Jeff is virtue signalling to the Liberal left who have been hounding him and his company for unpaid tax… Also, as such a philanthropic pledge is tax deductible, this is a “win-win” for him and Amazon.

I know, I know.

Silly me.

“Shut up and pay your taxes.”





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