Same for a lot of other issues:
- society
- forest
- health
- education
- thermal insulation
- homeless
The web make you feel connected .. but to all the wrong projects. I'm going to redirect the efforts toward "physical" change from now on.
- society
- forest
- health
- education
- thermal insulation
- homeless
The web make you feel connected .. but to all the wrong projects. I'm going to redirect the efforts toward "physical" change from now on.
Focused* effort brings about the greatest likelihood of success.
*I realize I'm being a bit hypocritical as I'm proposing working on fixing oceans (which will have plenty of added benefits wrt climate change etc.) as a side project to bring about change; in addition to my full time freelance dev work.
"Definition: Global Catastrophic Risk – risk of events or processes that would lead to the deaths of approximately a tenth of the world’s population, or have a comparable impact."
What I had in mind was an information source for individual decision-making (what to work on to best tackle problem X, how things are going), whereas politics is more about deciding as a group what problems are worth solving and then ordering resources to be directed into them.
I mean, joining forces to fix or improve the place we live in is the root of ideal politics/government.
Still, I don't think we need to try and make another body that would tell people what to do. Instead, I'm thinking of helping people who want to help by telling them where that help would have biggest impact, and as a secondary effect, creating a high-level overview of the scope of important issues[0]. Less of a government, more of an information service, I guess.
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[0] - even just reading and responding in this thread, I learned about areas that I never realized impact ocean acidification.