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Jeff Bezos, Residential Earth, and The Quest to Pollute the Solar System
“Eventually it will be much cheaper and simpler to make really complicated things like microprocessors … in space and then send those highly complex manufactured objects back down to Earth so that we don’t have the big factories and pollution-generating industries that make those things now,” he said, adding, “Earth can be zoned residential.”
~Jeff Bezos, July 2019
It’s rare when a titan of business admits that the process of his business is actually killing the planet, but this is essentially what Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos admitted this week during his interview on CBS Evening News. In a celebration of our first moon landing, Mr. Bezos gave several insights into why he’s spending his billions to try and get human activity into space — because we’re destroying our planet and there’s no stopping it. Rather than suggest that perhaps industry needs to change, or the mining of minerals for our future needs to be managed in a more sustainable way, Bezos feels his billions are better spent finding ways to bring our polluting economy to our planetary neighbors, allowing us to continue to consume the moon’s minerals, burn our garbage on Mars and perhaps run our manufacturing plants on Venus. This idea clearly shows that our most powerful have no interest in changing the way things are, just moving the worst…
