David Bird, whose house burned down when the brand new Amazon-bought charger for his e-bike caught fire, has been sleeping on sofas and in his car.
Metals are electricity conductors and putting them into live sockets can lead to electric shocks and fires.
Six Amazon workers died when a deadly tornado devastated a warehouse in Illinois on Friday.
“We are seeing the Amazon rainforest being destroyed by a government which made environmental destruction its public policy.”
"Why can only the EU protect its citizens?", one person tweeted in response.
At a meeting in New York, the Amazon founder said it was up to governments to set taxation frameworks.
"When they’re p*ssing in bottles rather than be fired for toilet breaks this sounds more like a taunt," James Felton said.
“Imagine if we could prohibit fires in the Amazon – it could be a carbon sink. But we are doing the opposite – we are accelerating climate change," a researcher has said.
French finance minister Bruno Le Maire called it “the most important international tax agreement in a century”.