A massive PR move for a company in one of the most unnecessarily wasteful industries.
Earth is now our only shareholder
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#12I wish they'd use less plastic. It's hard to find anything from Patagonia that uses environmentally-friendly materials.
Perhaps they can research a way to make performance fabrics that are better for the earth.
Allbirds has been a real pioneer in this space, and they've shown that you can use natural, sustainable materials and produce a product just as good as the others.
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#13I'm curious what they're going to do, long term, about their use of PFAS (the alleged forever chemicals) in waterproofing. Apparently they've been trying to reduce usage or find alternatives, but the alternatives aren't demonstrably better.
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#14It's a demonstrable fact that Carbon Dioxide as a % of the Earth's atmosphere is increasing, and virtually all serious models predict that it will have a significant impact on the planet's average temperature and other characteristics. But there's a big prisoner's dilemma emerging over it, especially as globalism appears to be breaking down between the West and Russia/China. When trade and diplomacy erode to the poin…
De-globalization will slow down economy, human activities, resulting in less pollution, less production. As long as there are no world wars, or any war for that matter, I'm all for de-globalization.
You might not have a problem with your phone costing $2000 dollars in that case, but there's so much machinery, equipment, chips, materials and various other products that would massively increase in cost or simply couldn't be produced anywhere else.
How would that affect healthcare, education, manufacturing, whatever? I'm guessing that the amount of avoidable deaths that would be caused just because you can't get a chip that you need for a medical diagnostic device would soon be rivaling potential climate change deaths.
Climate change needs to be tackled and globalization isn't my favorite thing in the world, but I don't think this is the right way.
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#15Honestly never was interested in Patagonia (associated them with Silicon Valley bro types). After learning about the company and its owner from the move they made yesterday I'll probably refresh my wardrobe with some of their products for the coming winter.
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#16Just in time that I would like to buy a winter jacket, seems Patagonia is the brand, if not at least a used one.
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#17This reminds me of Bosch. The majority of the company is owned by the Robert Bosch Stiftung [1] which gets the most of the profit (after reinvestments into the company) to fund educational projects in the sense of Robert Bosch. In my opinion it's a nice concept to use the profits for things that benefit us. There are still other people in charge of advisories but they don't profit from it. Let us hope that more compa…
If you want to learn about another fascinating company, research Rolex.
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#18It's a demonstrable fact that Carbon Dioxide as a % of the Earth's atmosphere is increasing, and virtually all serious models predict that it will have a significant impact on the planet's average temperature and other characteristics. But there's a big prisoner's dilemma emerging over it, especially as globalism appears to be breaking down between the West and Russia/China. When trade and diplomacy erode to the poin…
The way scientists are hunting down methane leaks and CFC cheaters using satellites gives me hope. Even in the cold war, there were nuclear test bans enforced using monitoring technology.
The fact that we need satellites, whose manufacturing, launches, and operation produce insane amounts of GHGs, is disheartening and doesn't really justify the earth-sensing industry. Audits and enforcement can be achieved without satellites.
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#19Honestly never was interested in Patagonia (associated them with Silicon Valley bro types). After learning about the company and its owner from the move they made yesterday I'll probably refresh my wardrobe with some of their products for the coming winter.
it's probably as far from SV bro's as you can get
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#20Honestly never was interested in Patagonia (associated them with Silicon Valley bro types). After learning about the company and its owner from the move they made yesterday I'll probably refresh my wardrobe with some of their products for the coming winter.
>associated them with Silicon Valley bro types
Patagonia themselves dislike this association, going so far as to refuse to make clothing for many of these people.
https://gizmodo.com/patagonia-will-stop-selling-those-horrib...