Why is Amazon shipping so cheap?

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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I take on Amazon. Specifically, I look at how Amazon prime shipping and delivery services impact the environment and the workers who rush to fulfill such tight deadlines. Looking at shipping services like Amazon Flex and investigating the conditions in Amazon warehouses I try to answer the questions of why is Amazon so cheap? What does Amazon really cost In short, Amazon's grand theory of consistent need for speed to fulfill prime one-day and two-day ship orders means high environmental impacts and crushing loads on workers both in the warehouse and out for delivery. So, when you purchase an Amazon product the burden of that cheap price tag lands on workers and the environment.

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Resources:
1. Jeff Bezos says Amazon is donating $690,000 to Australian bush fire efforts (CNBC): https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/13/jeff-bezos-criticized-for-amazons-690000-australian-fires-donation.html
2. Amazon's 1-day shipping is convenient — and terrible for the environment (Vox): https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/10/16/20917467/amazon-one-day-shipping-bad-for-environment
3. Amazon's Environmental Record May Be As Bad As Its Work Culture (HuffPost): https://tinyurl.com/vtpjmo8
4. Amazon.com's Environmental Impact (Part 1/2) | S1:E1 (Ecocentric Media via YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUY1QH2jb_8
5. E-Commerce: Convenience Built on a Mountain of Cardboard (NY Times): https://tinyurl.com/tqkmqkv
6. How Amazon Crushed the Union Movement (Time): https://time.com/956/how-amazon-crushed-the-union-movement/
7. The Grand Theory of Amazon (Polymatter via YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyohSu-Ft_U
8. Impacts of home shopping on vehicle operations and greenhouse gas emissions: multi-year regional study (Laghaei et al.): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504509.2015.1124471#.Vr5M9nt5ius
9. Explore the relationship between online shopping and shopping trips: An analysis with the 2009 NHTS data (Zhou & Wang): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S096585641400233X
10. Amazon shares jump on milestone of 150 million Prime members (CBS News): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-shares-up-on-150-million-prime-members-earnings-sales/
11. 2017 U.S. GHG Emissions by Sector (EPA): https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-greenhouse-gas-emissions
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13. Microsoft, Google, Amazon – Who’s the Biggest Climate Hypocrite? (Greenpeace): https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/microsoft-google-amazon-energy-oil-ai-climate-hypocrite/
14. Greenpeace Report: Click Clean Virginia (Greenpeace): https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/click-clean-virginia/
15. Cloud Computing | AWS Oil & Gas (Amazon): https://aws.amazon.com/oil-and-gas/
16. All the companies in Jeff Bezos’s empire, in one (large) chart (MarketWatch): https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-not-just-amazon-and-whole-foods-heres-jeff-bezos-enormous-empire-in-one-chart-2017-06-21
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18. 'Amazon has all the power': How Amazon controls legions of delivery drivers without paying their wages and benefits (Business Insider): https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-controls-delivery-drivers-without-paying-wages-2018-9
19. From 0% to 1.2%: Amazon Lauds Its Minuscule Effective Federal Income Tax Rate (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy): https://itep.org/from-0-to-1-2-amazon-lauds-its-minuscule-effective-federal-income-tax-rate/
20. Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (NY Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html
21. Amazon warehouse workers sickened after bear-spray incident (ABC News via YouTube):
22. Amazon Rising (NBC News via YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9M48l3EgMk
23. What It's Like To Be An Amazon Flex Delivery Driver (CNBC via YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlcP2aTOp-Q
24. Amazon Revenue 2006-2019 | AMZN (MacroTrends): https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/revenue
25. Sustainability (Amazon): https://www.aboutamazon.com/sustainability
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