https://www.wired.com/story/sustainability-amazon-hardware/

Amazon’s annual hardware event on Wednesday was not unlike its product announcements from years prior: The company unveiled a dizzying number of new Echo speakers, showed off how its improving Alexa through sophisticated speech technology, and even revealed a couple of skunkworks projects—smart glasses and a smart ring—at the very end of its presentation.

But this year’s Amazon event took place against a backdrop of issues much more important than any fancy new smart speaker: Just last week, nearly 2,000 Amazon workers walked out and called for the company to reduce its carbon footprint and do more to combat the climate crisis. It was an unprecedented protest for Amazon employees, and just one day beforehand, CEO Jeff Bezos had usurped the demonstration with a climate-related statement of his own, committing Amazon to reaching the goals of the Paris climate accord 10 years early and becoming carbon neutral by 2040.