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Effective climate action will need several orders of magnitude more money than 600K :) However well-meaning, cute high-school projects and rural third world ing
by imjonse 3y ago
Effective climate action will need several orders of magnitude more money than 600K :) However well-meaning, cute high-school projects and rural third world ingenuity is not going to cut it. This is a problem best addressed by Manhattan/Apollo project approaches (huge funding for science). The incentives are not there unfortunately, what's more there are quite a few working in the opposite direction.
- Shrezzing 3y agoYCombinator might be the literal antithesis to the suggestion that $600k isn't a meaningful sum of money in the face of large problems.
- imjonse 3y agoTell me which of the large problems solved by YC companies - including those with 8-9 figures of investment rounds not just the initial seed the 600k compares to - can be likened to the challenges of climate action. There are the ones doing nuclear fusion and similar; by comparison the average YC company tackles relatively small problems both in outcome and challenges encountered.