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Sadly, startups innovations did not find (or even tried) a way to save animals and wild life. If Disney would contribute 1% of all income they got from animals

Sadly, startups innovations did not find (or even tried) a way to save animals and wild life. If Disney would contribute 1% of all income they got from animals based movies? If Docker would contribute 1% to save whales?

JustSomeNobody 7y ago
That 1% should go to wealthy investors because they’re the only ones who can then use that money to make the world a better place. Edit: slash es.
- krastanov 7y ago
  You really need an "/s", otherwise nobody will get you are joking.
  - JustSomeNobody 7y ago
    So it seems.
maxmalysh 7y ago
Really sad. We could have saved dinosaurs from extinction, then...
- sidlls 7y ago
  Dinosaurs aren't extinct. They're all over the place. They just are much smaller, have wings, and fly these days.
taf2 7y ago
I think it’s an interesting idea we’d need to have someone like gates, focused on how to use that money for effective impact otherwise likely that money would just go to waste... hence nice idea but lot of work to back it up for real impact...
arcticfox 7y ago
> If Docker would contribute 1% to save whales? Maybe Docker the technology, but Docker the company is on the endangered list itself
blondin 7y ago
maybe there are startups doing just that? but don't get much attention or exposure or even funding. it's perhaps a reflection of our priorities as a society...
joshvm 7y ago
As someone who works in conservation tech, there are a lot of issues. You need to have influence with policymakers (ie the people who can crack down on illegal habitat destruction, or agricultural policy). It requires a mixture of educating local people about sustainable land use, better environmental monitoring (this is what I do), changing consumer habits so we don't need to deforest to satisfy our food needs, and so on. There is a lot of money already involved and there are lots of startups doing good work on sustainability which indirectly is beneficial. For example lab grown meat might reduce pressure on livestock farming.

JustSomeNobody 7y ago

That 1% should go to wealthy investors because they’re the only ones who can then use that money to make the world a better place. Edit: slash es.

krastanov 7y ago
You really need an "/s", otherwise nobody will get you are joking.
- JustSomeNobody 7y ago
  So it seems.

maxmalysh 7y ago

Really sad. We could have saved dinosaurs from extinction, then...

sidlls 7y ago
Dinosaurs aren't extinct. They're all over the place. They just are much smaller, have wings, and fly these days.

taf2 7y ago

I think it’s an interesting idea we’d need to have someone like gates, focused on how to use that money for effective impact otherwise likely that money would just go to waste... hence nice idea but lot of work to back it up for real impact...

arcticfox 7y ago

> If Docker would contribute 1% to save whales? Maybe Docker the technology, but Docker the company is on the endangered list itself

blondin 7y ago

maybe there are startups doing just that? but don't get much attention or exposure or even funding. it's perhaps a reflection of our priorities as a society...

joshvm 7y ago

As someone who works in conservation tech, there are a lot of issues. You need to have influence with policymakers (ie the people who can crack down on illegal habitat destruction, or agricultural policy). It requires a mixture of educating local people about sustainable land use, better environmental monitoring (this is what I do), changing consumer habits so we don't need to deforest to satisfy our food needs, and so on. There is a lot of money already involved and there are lots of startups doing good work on sustainability which indirectly is beneficial. For example lab grown meat might reduce pressure on livestock farming.