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Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

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Re: Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

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Greenwashing. $400M is about what AMZN spent on the totally-unwanted LOTR reboot.

Just because they could afford to give more doesn't make this money meaningless.

I'm not saying we need to like, bow down and praise Bezos over this, or that it erases any other bad things he may have done...but let's try to acknowledge that hundreds of millions toward this kind of charity is an actual good thing and not just a pointless PR stunt.

Re: Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

#42

> The Greening America’s Cities initiative launches with $50 million for urban greening efforts in five cities–Albuquerque, Atlanta... This is ironic given that Atlanta currently has 85 acres of prime greenspace that the city is spending $90M+ to turn into a police training center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_City

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Re: Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

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Shit on the people that all of society has been collectively shitting on for generations, classy. Those peasants better be thankful for their breadcrumbs!

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"I'm sure the communities will respect these spaces." doesn't really read like "These spaces won't be taken care of not because the community doesn't value them, but because other people are racist towards that community which will hurt their garden in... ways".

It reads like "I don't think these communities can handle running a garden or keeping a green space nice".

Re: Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

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I always like how good old Warren Buffett is calling for high earners to be taxed more, yet he never seems to show up on any of these high earner lists...

How is that inconsistent?

Because the narrative being developed around him is that he is such a selfless guy, humble midwestern values, wants good for America, yet he structures his affairs in a way that he pays as little tax as possible and would be largely unaffected by increased income tax...

Re: Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

#45
Albuquerque is a desert, as such greening the city by planting anything is bad. They can still use parks, but parks there need to respect nature and that means very little grass or trees. (not zero of either, but the ground needs to be mostly bare).

Hopefully they don't try to force what would be the correct green for the climate of one place on another. We have too much of that already.

Re: Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

#46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shit on the people that all of society has been collectively shitting on for generations, classy. Those peasants better be thankful for their breadcrumbs!

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If you were being sincere, you should learn how to communicate in a way that doesn't heavily imply sarcasm.

If you were being sarcastic, which you were, you should troll elsewhere.

Your second comment mentioning racism actually does add a repulsive racial tinge to your commentary, which is worse than the original classist trolling.

Re: Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

#47
post #3

Be better if he just paid taxes.

Taxes -> Uncle Sam -> Some Politician Pockets -> Dumbass projects, pointless initiatives [sometimes fueled by lobbying] -> Maybe some of it finally towards underprivileged communities with a 25% chance? Donating directly to the communities removes all this mess and gets money where it needs to go.

I’m a huge fan of long lasting infrastructure like schools, internet, green energy, public transport etc. this stuff always pays off for future generations.

Re: Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

#48

> The Greening America’s Cities initiative launches with $50 million for urban greening efforts in five cities–Albuquerque, Atlanta... This is ironic given that Atlanta currently has 85 acres of prime greenspace that the city is spending $90M+ to turn into a police training center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_City

Cop City? Oh yea, Amazon is funding that effort.

Re: Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

#49
post #41
post #17

Greenwashing. $400M is about what AMZN spent on the totally-unwanted LOTR reboot.

Just because they could afford to give more doesn't make this money meaningless. I'm not saying we need to like, bow down and praise Bezos over this, or that it erases any other bad things he may have done...but let's try to acknowledge that hundreds of millions toward this kind of charity is an actual good thing and not just a pointless PR stunt.

I'd prefer if Amazon et al paid their taxes and society as a whole could decide how to spend it to better itself, through the democracy that we are supposed to live in.

Re: Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities

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> The Greening America’s Cities initiative launches with $50 million for urban greening efforts in five cities–Albuquerque, Atlanta... This is ironic given that Atlanta currently has 85 acres of prime greenspace that the city is spending $90M+ to turn into a police training center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_City

No amount of money is going to fix public policy and citizen apathy. The change needs to be grassroots and cultural, not pushed down by someone with $150B to his name.
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