Amazon faces employee revolt over slow climate action

Enlarge / Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, in May 2018. (credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hundreds of Amazon employees on Monday issued statements blasting their own employer and calling for the company to do more to fight climate change. Some employees also praised Amazon's decision last September to order 100,000 electric vans-part of the company's climate change initiative. But others argued that Amazon's policies so far are inadequate given the scale of the climate change problem.

"Amazon can and should do more," wrote Amazon employee Nolan Woodle. "We should end our contracts with oil and gas companies that are using our services to locate, drill for, and extract fossil fuels."

"Big Tech has the opportunity to not only change the world but change the planet," wrote another employee, Rabecca Rocha.

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