It's time to break up with Amazon!  We need to erase our credit card information from Amazon's website  – today.

Let's ask ourselves: "What are the hidden costs of underpriced goods?"  At this very moment, Amazon is not only bankrupting local businesses (and thus degrading our community's quality of life), but constructing sprawling warehouses in indigent communities where it can easily overwork and underpay workers. In addition, Amazon is attempting to undermine  the National Labor Relations Act  (NRLA), which was created “to encourage collective bargaining by protecting workers’ full freedom of association… [It] protects workplace democracy by providing employees at private-sector workplaces the fundamental right to seek better working conditions and designation of representation without fear of retaliation.”  Although the constitution ensures freedom of assembly, without the oversight of the National Labors Relation Board, unions lose power to initiate and enforce much needed changes in ordinary people's jobs and work-place.

And as if exploiting workers were not egregious enough, Amazon is generating millions of one-time-use only boxes, which signifies the razing of millions of more trees in the midst of our Climate Catastrophe. Meanwhile, thousands of Amazon vans zip around our distracted nation, exuding exhaust while chauffeuring individual packages to individuals' doorsteps, giving us the illusion we are truly rich. (But Noam Chomsky warns us that by turning us first-and-foremost into consumers, the for-profit media has deviated us away from being engaged citizens  –  and creating a truly participatory democracy...) Thus, even should we imagine that we cannot be held responsible for greenhouse gases' having surpassed the 350 ppm threshold, we must ask if this situation does not prove how we have grown addicted to convenience.

In the end, we shouldn't be surprised that such instant-gratification shopping comes at a certain cost (not merely as regards to our wallets).  For Amazon often delivers stuff we don't need, all of which is destined to end up in land-fill.  That stuff is most often neither recycable nor compostable and is largely manufactured in the Third-World, fueling extractive capitalism, ecocide, and wars.

Let it be known: We cannot afford Amazon! Left unopposed, such big corporations as Amazon are cannabalizing the Planet and risking our very future.  Let's boycott Amazon together!

As of today, let's benefit from visualizing, creating, and making manifest a different kind of future! Towards that goal, let's work towards a livable world for everyone.

In this process, we will face ourselves, and better come to understand ourselves.  For U.S. residents make up merely 4% of the world's  population, and yet we consume 25% of the world's resources.  Clearly that is unjust. So let's start pursuing degrowth, today!