[lrdswrk00]

Yet another in a number of Bezos fluff pieces I’ve seen in the last few days.

Oh, he wants to save the planet? Maybe his garbage spewing engine named Amazon could do something there.

Bezos is smart enough to know the odds of him saving Earth or an asteroid hitting in 30 years are about even odds right now, so sure, sell that but also figure by then he’ll be too old to miss out.

Humans sure love to live in the fantasy that humanity is forever well they needlessly consume the only planet known for certain to support their biology.

[dionysus_jon]

Did you read the article?

[lrdswrk00]

Yes. It’s not what’s in the article but what it lacks; real criticism.

It does nothing to constructively challenge why we should let Bezos be in charge of saving the planet.

His billionaire adventures are doing quite a bit of damage to begin with, perpetuating shallow consumerism.

It neither denigrates nor deifies him. It’s a flaccid “both sides” emotional piece, leaving conclusions up to the reader.

Mine were that he’s part of the problem he’s trying to solve so why expect him to be anything else?

Bezos can’t escape being human and humans are destroying the planet.

[iab]

I came to comment, not read