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This is great for consumers, but has anyone considered the environmental cost of this?



Have you considered the environmental cost? If so, what was your result? How much more/less damaging to the environment do you believe this will be?

Sorry if I'm coming off a little harsh, but this is a pretty low-effort comment that doesn't actually add anything to the conversation.


Yeah it sounded a bit like "Won't anyone think of the children?"


These are planes that were going to fly anyway. As another poster said - the only really new thing is the paint scheme. The planes are still owned by the same firms, and still contracted to Amazon for carrying their parcels.

Not to be snarky, but to reduce your environmental impact in this area, you'd have to stop buying things from far away places -- only buying locally produced goods. Which for parts of the world that aren't China, would be hard to do.


To me, it seems like making efforts to streamline shipping will reduce their environmental impact.




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