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> ...working to bring about a big political change Can we start a quick brainstorming what promising organizations exist that support this goals and in turn jo

> ...working to bring about a big political change Can we start a quick brainstorming what promising organizations exist that support this goals and in turn joining/supporting them would be a viable option for individuals to have an actual impact towards political change? I'll start with the usual suspect Greenpeace.

polycaster 4y ago
Also https://www.climateemergencyfund.org/ https://www.climateemergencyfund.org/
rmchugh 4y ago
350.org
vaughandroid 4y ago
I'm a big fan of ClientEarth - they essentially take governments and organisations to court to try to force them to meet local and international environmental laws. It's one thing having the laws in place, but if they aren't enforced they aren't worth anything. https://www.clientearth.org/ https://www.clientearth.org/
- tremon 4y ago
  What a horrible landing page mechanism. Just show me the site, not a ten-second splash screen drip-feeding me words just because you think it looks cool.
  - paledot 4y ago
    Followed by a cookie prompt that takes up most of the screen on my phone.
- AlgorithmicTime 4y ago
ZeroGravitas 4y ago
Green Parties generally. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_party You can tell they are effective as they get regularly attacked by people here who seem to have a visceral hatred of them and very weird justifications for why (they're under the thrall of the fossil fuel companies apparently) Anyone that advocates for increasing democracy generally, whether more representational democracy in existing democracies that have broken systens (US or UK) or spreading it further. People generally want action for climate change, the people who don't need to spend a lot of money and tell a lot of lies to hold this back. The more democracy the more they'll need to spend. Electoral Reform Society https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voting-systems/what-are-voting-systems/proportional-representation/ https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voting-systems/what-are-... George Soros's Open Society Foundation https://voxeurop.eu/en/how-george-soros-was-transformed-from-herald-of-democracy-into-hungarys-enemy-of-the-people/ https://voxeurop.eu/en/how-george-soros-was-transformed-from... HN types might be more attracted to the business or analytical sides though. Carbon Tracker or Bloomberg New Energy Finance which proceed from the premise that climate change is inefficient and there's market based opportunities there to be exploited. https://carbontracker.org/ https://carbontracker.org/ https://about.bnef.com/contact/ https://about.bnef.com/contact/ Within big orgs like Google and Microsoft they have similar teams I believe, looking for the cheapest and most synergistic ways for them to save money and help the climate at the same time.
- hans1729 4y ago
  >Anyone that advocates for increasing democracy generally I find this take fascinating. In my model, increasing democracy correlates negatively with increasing long term planning, which only then wouldn’t be the case if our species was acting as a collective. Aggregating individual interests doesn’t magically lead to collective interests, just to the set of actions that map on individual demand. There are no real majorities in favor of the rather radical changes required to deal with the major problems of our time, the opposite is the case. People are willing to sacrifice the stability of the future in favor of their well being in the current legislative period, especially in countries with demographics skewed towards the elderly. Democracy is not the solution unless a culture of sanity becomes prevalent, and that’s not on the horizon afaik. Borrowing from a german idiom, the current model is “Eltern haften für ihre Kinder”, parents are liable for their children. What we need is the cultural change in the opposite direction, that being a heavy awareness of the fact that children are de facto liable for the actions of their parents.

polycaster 4y ago

Also https://www.climateemergencyfund.org/ https://www.climateemergencyfund.org/

rmchugh 4y ago

350.org

vaughandroid 4y ago

I'm a big fan of ClientEarth - they essentially take governments and organisations to court to try to force them to meet local and international environmental laws. It's one thing having the laws in place, but if they aren't enforced they aren't worth anything. https://www.clientearth.org/ https://www.clientearth.org/

tremon 4y ago
What a horrible landing page mechanism. Just show me the site, not a ten-second splash screen drip-feeding me words just because you think it looks cool.
- paledot 4y ago
  Followed by a cookie prompt that takes up most of the screen on my phone.
AlgorithmicTime 4y ago

ZeroGravitas 4y ago

Green Parties generally. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_party You can tell they are effective as they get regularly attacked by people here who seem to have a visceral hatred of them and very weird justifications for why (they're under the thrall of the fossil fuel companies apparently) Anyone that advocates for increasing democracy generally, whether more representational democracy in existing democracies that have broken systens (US or UK) or spreading it further. People generally want action for climate change, the people who don't need to spend a lot of money and tell a lot of lies to hold this back. The more democracy the more they'll need to spend. Electoral Reform Society https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voting-systems/what-are-voting-systems/proportional-representation/ https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voting-systems/what-are-... George Soros's Open Society Foundation https://voxeurop.eu/en/how-george-soros-was-transformed-from-herald-of-democracy-into-hungarys-enemy-of-the-people/ https://voxeurop.eu/en/how-george-soros-was-transformed-from... HN types might be more attracted to the business or analytical sides though. Carbon Tracker or Bloomberg New Energy Finance which proceed from the premise that climate change is inefficient and there's market based opportunities there to be exploited. https://carbontracker.org/ https://carbontracker.org/ https://about.bnef.com/contact/ https://about.bnef.com/contact/ Within big orgs like Google and Microsoft they have similar teams I believe, looking for the cheapest and most synergistic ways for them to save money and help the climate at the same time.

hans1729 4y ago
>Anyone that advocates for increasing democracy generally I find this take fascinating. In my model, increasing democracy correlates negatively with increasing long term planning, which only then wouldn’t be the case if our species was acting as a collective. Aggregating individual interests doesn’t magically lead to collective interests, just to the set of actions that map on individual demand. There are no real majorities in favor of the rather radical changes required to deal with the major problems of our time, the opposite is the case. People are willing to sacrifice the stability of the future in favor of their well being in the current legislative period, especially in countries with demographics skewed towards the elderly. Democracy is not the solution unless a culture of sanity becomes prevalent, and that’s not on the horizon afaik. Borrowing from a german idiom, the current model is “Eltern haften für ihre Kinder”, parents are liable for their children. What we need is the cultural change in the opposite direction, that being a heavy awareness of the fact that children are de facto liable for the actions of their parents.