Global Climate Strike: US Workers of Google, Amazon Join Protests

Global Climate Strike: US Workers of Google, Amazon Join Protests

Hundreds of employees from Google, Amazon and other technology companies attended Friday's climate change protests in San Francisco and Seattle, saying their employers were too slow to deal with global warming, they had to take more vigorous action.

As the students defined the global agenda and led the local markets, the technology workers of the US West Coast said they supported and challenged software and hardware manufacturers and suppliers. from services like cloud data storage to do more.

The march was limited to a week in which Google announced an increase of more than 40% in its wind and solar energy contracts from Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. has committed itself to using only these renewable energies by 2030.

"We're on the road because we want them to do more," said Danilo Quilaton, 34, product designer for Twitch, Amazon's streaming video partner. He called his company's promise on Thursday a big win.

"Amazon has promised some things, but we still have to hold her accountable," said Chilton, who said, "I work at Amazon, I do not want to do business with oil and gas companies."

On the streets of San Francisco and Seattle, there were hundreds, if not thousands, then thousands of people carrying posters with clues about technology companies and screaming technology slogans - a fraction of the hand of technology. However, their presence was more important than previous events and meant a shift in an industry whose engineers often focused more on their work than on social issues.

"Amazon, raise the bar, not the temperature," says a protest sign in front of the glass domes of Seattle's Amazon headquarters, referred to as "Spheres," and a local symbol of the wealth of industry.

"Tech wakes up," said Marie Collins, Google Business Analyst, San Francisco. "Technicians realize they have to act together."

One of the panels with the hashtag techwontbuildit called for zero emissions by 2030, no agreement to provide technology to oil and gas companies, and no sponsorship from corporations that deny climate change, which matches the petitions of large corporations.

Coordination between different companies has been carried out in parallel with recent efforts by staff to resist work on military contracts, immigrant support and other issues.

In the late morning, technicians took part in demonstrations led by young people who raided a dozen streets in the street market of San Francisco. In Seattle, hundreds of technicians gathered at Amazon Headquarters and joined larger groups.

Businesses have expressed their empathy for workers in dealing with climate change. 

However, Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, said Thursday it would be a bad idea to provide the cloud computing company's oil and gas customers outdated tools as they try to develop their business.

Hold her responsibleA spokeswoman for Amazon said on Friday that the company understands that some employees are very committed to climate change, just like Amazon. Google, which announced its clean energy agreement on Thursday, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

While a majority of the public sees the technology as a clean industry, unlike the traditional transportation or manufacturing sector, employees have stated that power consumption in the data centers used in the industry has skyrocketed. Cloud computing was a big problem.