"U.S.", "Climate", "Environment", and "Trump" may fuel the clicks...but this is the fundamental problem with all computerized data, on-line or not. Techno-utop

"U.S.", "Climate", "Environment", and "Trump" may fuel the clicks...but this is the fundamental problem with all computerized data, on-line or not. Techno-utopians spin up grand dreams of vast cornucopias of human knowledge, "just a click away", forever. Vs. hard reality is that a silent army of unsung (and usually ill-paid) librarians and engineers has to keep working every single day, forever, to actually preserve and serve up that cornucopia. With maybe 0.01% of the utopians ever willing to lift a finger to help them. If you care enough to help a bit - buy a pair of decent-quality, multi-TB external hard drives, set 'em up as a RAID mirror, and slowly fill 'em with downloaded data that you think should be preserved for 10 to 1000 years. Preferably two different brands of drive, a fs that detects bit rot, and checking at least annually that the data is still good. When you get old, try to pass the drives (or their successors) on to two younger people who care. And if you are serving up any sort of data that you think should be preserved, long-term? Then make sure it's easy to get in a format that will be easily read in the more-distant future. Not just something cool or proprietary, that might as well be Voynich-ese a century from now.