Amazon’s Efforts to Silence Climate Whistleblowers Are Backfiring

The tech giant has moved to suppress employee activism on climate change, but its most vocal workers remain unbowed

Brian Merchant
OneZero
Published in
6 min readJan 9, 2020

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WWhen Amazon threatened to fire a number of employees for calling on the online retailer to improve its climate policies, the intent seemed obvious: Quiet the…

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Brian Merchant
OneZero

Senior editor, OneZero, books, futures, fiction. Author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, founder of Terraform @ Motherboard @ VICE.