How online shopping is polluting California’s Inland Empire
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- In California’s Inland Empire, dozens of mega-warehouses for Amazon, UPS and other companies are choking the cities with traffic and air pollution. Some argue that the jobs warehouses provide aren’t worth the cost, while others say it’s online shopping that’s the real problem.
Intro: 0:00
Inland Empire map: 2:03
What this means for Fontana: 2:28
California's Attorney General steps in: 3:56
Mayor "Warehouse Warren": 4:45
Warehouses bring jobs: 5:23
Amazon expands in San Bernardino: 6:30
Where the lawsuits stand: 7:36
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Warehouses don't hire unions they hire temp employees which they can lay off when ever work slows down and there's no benefits for this temp employees earning next to minimum wages.
we need 2,000 more warehouses in Fontana. These jobs are good and help the economy.
@@RollerBladingSuxs lololololols! What economy? Fontana now cracking down on street vendors just to try to make some money to stay afloat. More warehouses are not going to do anything for Fontana's economy. The only thing that's happening is creating more traffic and more trucks that don't have anywhere to park without getting a ticket. These so called warehouses kicks them out because they're full and there aren't enough truck stops.
@@bajaboy27 We need 1 million more warehouses to make Fontana the richest city in California. The air quality will be so fresh, we'll live longer too
If I’m not mistaken, don’t these cities receive the sales tax stemming from items shipped from these warehouses.
Only for items sold to/shipped to customers within the tax jurisdiction. The problem is these warehouses are national or least large regional hubs so no sales tax benefit for a large? portion of sales shipped elsewhere, yet the residents take on the brunt of the pollution hazards.
@@nomisgnoh what pollution?
I have and currently do work in warehouses in the Fontana/Ontario area and You’re right, they are job centers, an abundance of jobs actually , but very few careers and ways to advance up
Trap jobs, good in the beginning but horrible to stay a long time.
My friend works in one of these warehouses in Fontana. I was absolutely shocked by how little he was getting paid for just last year. He is an account manager and was only getting paid $17/hr with no benefits or paid time off. I was utterly in shock that a manager could be paid so little! But its because these warehouse jobs just don't pay well and feel to stagnant overall.
My goodness aint that the truth.
& it's back breaking work since most warehouses labor track you.
So yes an abundance of warehouse jobs but difficult to move up.
A warehouse facilities manager requires 5-7 years supervisor experience.
Supervisor requires 2-3 years Lead experience.
& Lead experience requires kissing butt.😂😢😂😢😂😢
@@Moondoggy1941 your body will hate you for it.
I work at Amazon in Eastvale. It barley pays my bills. I honestly rather see the vast land the IE had once then work for a slave company ruining farmland
Muscoy area is over 6 miles away from the airport and has no warehouses. The closes warehouse is about 2 miles away from Muscoy, what plagues the air quality in Muscoy is the light mining operations from the Vulcan Materials facility that sits on the border of Rialto & San Bernardino, it has nothing to do with warehouses.
Which doesn’t The Times address the root of the problem - provoked consumerism. It’s no surprise really when people are constantly getting bombarded with ads everywhere or even here on YT. In fact The Times gets about 5minutes into this segment and up pops a 15second commercial for _Aspen Dental_ care. Clever…
Our consumer culture is vitalized and dominant and nothing will change, not even at the stake of the health of the consumers themselves
You can always get CZcams premium and avoid these commercials you talk about. Cheers 🍻
Fontana is turning into Vernon
And Cali's turning to Mexico so..
@@randyjenkins8743 mexico actually has industry
Fontana is turning into beverly hills. We need more and more warehouses each month to get there.
Super interesting. This explains a lot of the highly questionable zoning that I've seen driving through there. Amazon and other logistics companies own these towns.
Reminds me of the Rockford Airport...they are continuing to build hubs and warehouses....the environment is being poorly affected....
Very informative
Thank you
How does Amazon help the Environment ? Packaging an item creates more waste than going to the store and buying the item.
It creates more income for the environment. We need more warehouses like a million more.
Do you order from Amazon?
I'll wait....
@@ameliaah I don't.
Well yes. Amazon packages shipped to residences create waste by the boxes they are shipped in however, items in retailers are also packaged and transported via ground transport and freight which also creates waste and pollution.
Amazon however offers lower prices on many items stocked at retailers and provide the opportunity to purchase items that are not easily accessible to people in certain areas added to the fact that driving to retailers takes time and gas spent to get there. With the current rate of inflation, consumers gravitate towards competitive prices and convenience to obtain products. Amazon also provides the convenience of making returns easier to manage as well.
Amazon’s selling point is convenience and competitive prices.
I am also not defending Amazon as I am not in full support of Amazon’s business practices either.
There’s also the due diligence of residents using the proper disposal methods by waste
management companies like Burrtec. Recyclable items like paper and plastic are usually disposed in the blue recycle bins. If people aren’t using the proper disposal methods than this also contributes to the pollution/waste argument.
Also if waste management companies aren’t doing their due diligence to properly dispose items than that’s another conversation to have.
It’s easy to point the finger at 1 individual/entity but the responsibility lies on everyone.
Regardless, the video is meant to show the pollution levels of these warehouses and the potential effects it has on its local residence.
As long as my package gets to me quicker. Im all for more warehouses being built only in Fontana.
These cities allowed them to build these right on top of these neighborhoods it’s crazy
They will do anything for a buck, Coachella Valley does not want them and they tax them extra if they build there.
The kids need more shade from the warehouses.
And now the worlds biggest amazon warehouse is being built in South Ontario
Electric semi-trucks are here & coming. Perhaps improvement can be expedited & placed as a demand in contracts w/warehouses by California & others.
The power grid needs to be improved before we start increasing our dependence on EV's. Last time I checked solar and wind only accounted for around 10% of US electricity. If we continue shutting down Coal and Nuclear Power Plants without replacing them with an alternative energy source then generating capacity will be lost during a time when demand will heavily increase causing electricity prices to rise and possibly shortages.
What happens to all the batteries after they die? How will that affect the environment as well?
And what's next? Self driving trucks? As a truck driver who lived in a house where now a warehouse sits in Fontana, I wouldn't want to see that happening.
And they're worse for the environment!
What the teachers need to say, literally is there going to be working in warehouses for the rest of your Life while pointing around the school.
Yeah they bought us out three years ago, we moved next door to Bloomington and now they're trying to buy us out from here too. We're pretty annoyed by it. The city of Fontana 5 yrs ago dug out our street to place the sewer pipes for the the warehouses our business was heavily affected and we were never compensated at all. The city of Fontana is obviously making a lot of money, and the jobs are not going to people of Fontana, people from other cities come to work here while people from Fontana have to go to Ontario or Chino to work. Someone has to take a close look at what's been happening around here. In the south end of Bloomington (on the foothills of the jurupa mountains) there's a big empty lot, and now they're posting signs that they're planning on turning it into a warehouse industrial park, there's lots of wildlife that make that area home particularly rabbits and coyotes, once they get pushed out of the way they will have to interact with people more than they already do, on a daily we spot several coyotes and rabbits near home.
Wah wah
@@randyjenkins8743 You would think a person with any possible intelligence would have more to say than just make a dumb comment. But it's okay that's just how people are brought up nowadays.
I need more of these warehouses in Fontana so i can get my packages quicker.
@@RollerBladingSuxs more warehouses in Fontana won't get your packages quicker. Even if they have them in stock you'll still get it in two days.
These warehouses in fontana come with a 10-year tax break, why do you think they are moving here. The city is the one buying the land, and the life insurance Company's are funding the project for a return on investment. The company in the warehouse is then leasing the warehouse from the city of Fontana.
Either way the customers need to get their packages quicker. So there needs to be more warehouses in Fontana, no warehouses built in other cities.
Fontana, we call it Fun Tucky. It is Ca. trucking capital, the first Terminator was filmed there with no prep, just shoot, perfect back drop.
They could at least give some housing rebates or something
From chicken coops & wine yards to warehouses.
The Inland Empire is the armpit of America. It's nothing but dirt fields filled with trash, an abundance of warehouses, tract homes with no greenspace, liquor stores riddled with graffiti, and swapmeets filled with stolen goods.
There is no sense of community, no master planning, no preserved green spaces, no clean air, no clean water, the roads are beat, and people walk around out there in flip flops and pajamas all through the day.
The Inland Empire is an industrious wasteland with 0 quality of life.
I remember those days and the KKK meetings in Veterans Park.
But, the alternative are chain stores and malls. Except people don't need anything and don't shop.
Not only that, the city planners said, the area does not need a mall or shopping center, they called the area unattractive for developers, they want to build warehouses, because a warehouse pays a lot of money in taxes to the city.
This lady's pockets are being seriously lined by these developers, and I can tell you that the same argument is going on in San Bernardino. We are in the same mess here, because so much has been allowed to deteriorate for so long and land is cheap, so these OC developers come in, bulldoze through, make their money and leave the aftermath behind. They meet with council members who are elected "not" to do this, but push it through. Keep fighting Fontana, because we sure are.
It's a double edged sword. On one hand SoCal needs more affordable housing or more in general. The other hand is the need for better income in the form of higher paying jobs - new businesses.
They are building these warehouses along the 215 freeway around March Airbase which is federal and so it is zoned differently, they re also building them down further in Perris and Mead Valley yeah you guessed it low rent, open land along a freeway, the traffic is getting horrible there now, trucks everywhere, there is a grade to it so the trucks cannot go fast and even more traffic, Cal Trans shuts off the camera's in the area so you cannot see how bad it is.
The real problem here is rank consumerism fed by low prices paid for by the low-cost labor and poor environmental controls. Stop buying so much garbage. How much do you really need?
Some laws to plant lots of tress on that property to make it look less ,cement walls and dead. Since warehouses keep spreading
im glad someone has finally started shining some light on the bullshit going on in this area
the warehouses have always been there since i can remember but recently theyve started taking over
the sad part is theyre starting to take priority over our culture
one of the last drive in movie theaters is gonna get torn down to make room for another Wearhouse thats gonna be within a quarter mile of at least 6 others
if you have something left outside for long enough you can see a layer of black grime develop on it from the roads
Don't worry. More warehouses will be built. It's a good thing.
Im from Pomona and when they announced the closure of the Tiki Swapmeet that blew my heart out my chest. I remember telling my wife "they're either gonna build a bs warehouse or some expensive gated homes" which literally nobody in the area can afford. Ontario Ranch is rapidly becoming a concrete land. Its killing the culture & forcing low income families to move. Id seriously fund something to bring more light to this because what was once my childhood is slowly dying.
This is now happening in our neighborhood in Rancho Cordova, CA. We have been emploring city council to reject the first of 8 warehouses lined up for our neighborhood. City council rejected the first warehouse. Thier lawsuit from Dermody is to follow. 7 more warehouses to go as well. More warehouses are being planned in our neighboring city (El Dorado Hills) as well. I hope this warehouse vs neighborhoods gets continued media attention. Amazon is polluting our cities.
Same thing in Ontario CA. Little area known as Ontario Ranch once a small vast area of farmland now infested with warehouses. Sad because I remember being a child driving thru there smelling the scent of cows and fresh air, It felt so far but yet its only 15 mins from Pomona my home town. Now its infested with warehouses and new highly expensive gated communities
Yup. My work warehouse is in Fontana
Warehouses are the worst of the bunch of jobs having worked in them it's like a sweat shop there's no growth for improvement what's so ever it's a area of work that is depressing in its own foot people in warehouse work there only to make ends meet because that is their last resort bosses and higher up do not care and value their customers unless they break their body so much they can't work anymore and its not a job worth breaking your back for saying that all you do is load trailers unload trailers very very exhausting grabbing items and putting them on pallet jacks and wrapping the pallets it's also very exhausting
jobs help support families.
@@RollerBladingSuxs yes jobs do support people but not every job is worth doing even if it risks support
@@ulissesmendoza8752 I would work that job for free.
@@RollerBladingSuxs yeah ok please record a full day of you going to an Amazon fulfillment center for free and post it to your CZcams. We’re all waiting otherwise cope and seethe.
Yeah lotta gangbangers prison types
"You've got to have friends"
The trucks aren’t the problem 1 truck on road for how many hundreds of cars
They could take every truck off the road I don't know what the difference they think it's going to make these environmental dummies
Yes they say there’s a “housing shortage” yeah right they could have built homes if they wanted to…. But they don’t
Delivery ground trucks that deliver door to door should be electric
Ok look your not gonna believe this like it’s mind blowing. But airports are always surrounded with warehouses 🤭😔😔😕😕🤯🤯🤬🤬😳😳😠😠😧 crazy right?!??? Like location efficiency is so problematic
People are dumb. Jobs over complaints
Near impossible to live and maintain in this country. Prices up while wages are low or stagnated. Even if you are making good money the cost of living/taxes city fees grab every last penny. 2 or 3 incomes households required now to make it. Don't get divorced then it's really a wrap!
Then you're not a hustler then. There are many people that are able to make it with one income.
The pay isn't keeping up with inflation
if america doesn't start manufacturing people making 100 thousand a year will be poor
California / Gavin Newsom need to mandate that all these trucks be electric by 2025 and if they need grants and if they need ev incentives thats fine too. Use improved Machine Learning and sensors to monitor air quality. Re-usable air purifies placed strategically in the local communities. The big one is of course making all semi-trucks electric that way locals can keep the jobs or expand to more warehouses if they like.
who's gonna account for the excessive coal burning when the trucks are charging? what about environmental impacts from lithium extraction to create these batteries. And, when the truck batteries are done - how does the state/manufacturer handle disposing of the battery components safely?
Hydrogen is more appropriate for heavy transportation and that could decrease the pollution in the area.
We don't like. Electric trucks don't do anything to alleviate traffic, more warehouses without improving the infrastructure around these cities has proven problematic. Also the government can't mandate all trucks be electric, are you out of your flipping mind? Trucks are expensive, you buy a new car for $40-50k? Now imagine a new electric truck, it would easily be costing $150K not every truck driver delivering to these warehouses has that kind of money since they're getting paid next to peanuts, are you willing to help them pay for these trucks? Many have they're trucks already paid for, why in the world would they want to get back into a debt like that just because it makes you feel good to think you're doing something good about the environment? Do you know where a lot of the electricity we use comes from? From burning coal or nuclear power both which can be not environment friendly.
@@Alejandro-vn2si it's trucks not rockets.
@@bajaboy27 well, anything that does nor create carbon dioxide. Of its ammonia, go head. If is hydrogen, go head. If is electricity, go head. Anything that does not produce CO2.
The trucks should be electric
NO, we need more added pollution to Fontana.
Warehouses ready for future generations 😭😐
theres no manfuactuting in amrerica we dont produce anymore
Does it help the local to get more high paying job if the warehouses are closed? I don’t think so. Closing warehouses will only add more unemployment.
hello this is enviromental racism at its finest
Sounds fancy I'll have to add it to my bag of tricks
These people are complaining that there's warehouses all over the city meaning that there's jobs and places for them to work would it be better that they didn't have nowhere houses and nowhere to work those warehouses employ hundreds of people
Missing the point…
And does boycotting online shopping help the environment? It means having more cars driving to stores for shopping.
Wouldn't matter cause people commuting pollutes the most
Those Warehouses provide JOBS. ...If they All moved out of Fontana and the IE as a whole it would quickly turn into LAND OF NO JOBS.
exactly look at San Bernardino that place looks like Detroit
Build build unlucky mexico
These warehouses are disgusting
They are greatest economical boom for the city. We should be happy.
@@RollerBladingSuxs economic boom at the price of the lower income classes living situation. In fontana at least
@@Jeffrey421942 More warehouses equal more income for families. Thoses classes will move into the upper middle class income with these warehouses.
@@RollerBladingSuxs No, it won't. I have a friend whose been working in a warehouse for around 9 years now. Still has the same apartment he's had ever since. I know others who worked at a warehouse for over a year and decided to go to school again to find a better job, another who lives with their parents and works a warehouse job. The money isn't enough to move you to upper middle class.
also for these jobs, you sacrifice air quality for the people living here. And I've heard countless stories of trucks running lights in south fontana by classmates that live there. It does bring the city a lot of money. But as you can see, they spend the money on dumb things like performances to promote things such as warehouses and gas companies. I live here. south fontana gets no upkeep. All the money goes to north fontana where people are more well off in fontana in general. Its cruel that half of fontana gets almost nothing for it but are the ones living next to them
What jobs are you offering to replace these? We’re all listening 👂
3:40 she acts like she be doing much walking either way
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 oh well
so poor people are against the warehouses that will increase the value of their property and independence ... whew thank god Sacramento is doing all it can to push revenue n opportunity out of the state n keeping a poor place w fewer options ... genius
Keep VOTING DEMOCRAT, now you understand democrats don't care for you. Politicians receive donations from the warehouse business.
VOTE DEMOCRAT they love U
Same Demoncrats who have been running businesses and families out of California for decades. Texas is getting ready for another transplant wave from California. I wanted too move back home to Rialto, Ca, but all my friends tell me stay in Texas there is nothing here.
Aqcuanetta Warren is a Republican...
Notice Amazon and UPS build warehouses in Cali and not in weak failing Red states 🤣🤣🤣
As if Republicans will say NO to these donations. They're all in bed with each other, it's about who can play better the game of illusion with the people. Take that from a registered republican.
@@bajaboy27 What Republicans? The California Legislature is 75% Democrat. Republicans can't pass laws in California. Maybe some 22% inflation might do the trick for Californians.
It's not polluting. Most of those buildings are warehouses. They're no different than office buildings. Plus it's a major win for the work force.
15 minimum wage work! Yes cheap labor
These activists and social do-gooders wouldn't have last a day back in the '70s. First and second stage smog alerts every day in the summer. Eyes burning, coughing,. BUT WE ALL SURVIVED IT!
These warehouses generate hundreds of thousands of jobs at $18 an hour minimum. "Low income" residents enter the middle class with these jobs. My employer for one has hundreds of employees in Redlands, many with years of tenure. Taking anecdotal quotes from man on the street for warehouse turnover is poor reporting.
Bonta's posturing for his governorship run is going to cost jobs and do absolutely nothing to control pollution from existing warehouses. Require electric trucks when they are viable and limit idling within city limits. There are ways to protect jobs and limit pollution at the same time.
Theres multiple articles talking about turnover. In 2017 Amazon's turnover rate was literally over 100%.
@@randommodnar7141 Amazon is one company. There are thousands of warehouses in the area.
@@senhuachang its a wider trend within the warehouse industry.
These jobs do not put anyone in the middle class, I dont know what you are smoking, maybe management jobs in warehousing, hr people, or accounting, working in warehousing is more often then not a deadend job for people who dont know or dont think they can do better, the amount of land wasted on warehousing is stupid aswell. Until recently I feel that most warehousing jobs were only paying around 14, and with inflation of thing going up 6% this year alone, how much better is that really? Either way you seem out of touch if you really think these jobs break you out of lower income.
@@modalsoul4748 He’s clear a shill for the warehouse industry and their overlords. You are 100% spot on.
It's okay to move out of California if they don't like it there, & sounds like people who don't want to work for a good living and then go to church and pray for jobs that they have to put the food on the tables the roof over the heads and clothes on the backs of themselves. Why people are asking this question? It's why work and pray are now officially brand new 4 letter words in USA today now. Land of freedom not just free by the way is what it is shortened version of it not just because you get everything for completely free.
That's why Fontana is in the condition it is.
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