31st July 2025
Tomorrow sees the start of Amazon Free August. Like Plastic Free July, the aim is to encourage us to focus on how what we consume impacts both the environment and social wellbeing. Amazon is deeply unethical on many grounds – not least because it encourages us to buy more and more stuff, but also because of its poor track records on paying taxes and treating its workforce fairly.
It is possible to be a consumer without relying on Amazon:- https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-campaigns/boycott-amazon/shopping-without-amazon
A further thought that covers all online shopping, are we happy with the way that on line shopping is changing the landscape – with increasing numbers of large warehouses and diminished numbers of high street shops – and how that change has a knock on effect for where people work, for socialising and social cohesion?
The Green Tau 