A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX

Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by notRobot on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:58AM (#27119702)

I wish instead of focusing on taking humanity to a new planet more billionaires would focus on trying to sustain the planet that we already have.

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Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by DennisP on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @01:30PM (#27120883)

Musk spends half his time on electric cars, solar power, and grid storage, plus he just donated $100M for a carbon capture XPrize. He's probably had more positive impact on climate change than any other human on the planet. I doubt other car companies would be so far along on electric cars if Tesla hadn't forced the issue.

Bezos hasn't been that focused on climate but in 2020 he did donate $10 billion to his Earth Fund.

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Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by philwelch on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:04PM (#27121371)

He also pledged to make Amazon a carbon neutral company by 2040, which combined with the implicit goal of Amazon taking over the entire world economy (joking not joking) is a big deal.

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Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by adrianN on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:05PM (#27119820)

The environmental problems we have can't be solved by a couple of billionaires. We need politicians to get their act together.

Founding a new company that builds rockets on the other hand is something billionaires can do.

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Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by pmoriarty on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:30PM (#27120153)

"The environmental problems we have can't be solved by a couple of billionaires."

Plenty of relatively poor people have devoted their entire lives to working to help the environment, despite knowing their impact will be much smaller than what even a mere millionaire could accomplish.

Billionaires don't need to fix all environmental problems to make a very significant difference.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by tolbish on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:40PM (#27120266)

It would be incredibly remiss to ignore the effects that billionaires have on policy.

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Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by horstmeyer on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:16PM (#27119965)

Money buys politicians.

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Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by beaconstudios on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:05PM (#27119817)

Elon Musk is also doing that, with tesla - not just the cars but with the batteries and solarcity too.

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Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by me_me_me on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:08PM (#27119859)

> focus on trying to sustain the planet

And what if we cannot acheive it, because of political and economical system at play i.e. local maxima holding us back and prevents us from breaking away from current order of things?

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Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by rebolek on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:48PM (#27120368)

Then we all die because trying to make sustainable life on another planet is even harder.

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Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by hnrq on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:13PM (#27119923)

Going to another planet will not help with that. Pretty much no matter what happens on Earth, it will still be orders of magnitude easier to live here than in another planet.

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Re:A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of S... by me_me_me on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:08PM (#27121422)

But it might. A colony on mars doesn't have to end up being a capitalistic flavour of the day.

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