You should consider using a different phrase to describe this. Effective Alrruism is already claimed by a group you probably don’t want to associate with.
Which group? What is wrong with Peter Singer?
ETA: They are using Altruism. The post is titled Activism.
Oh so it is. My bad, misread.
My immediate thought was "yes, we need this". My second thought was "can we make one for ourselves?".
I am sure for each success there is an article by a small local news source waiting there to be discovered. I think your post gave me inspiration to start digging.
Also, I am wondering if there should be a community on Lemmy dedicated to successes?
"can we make one for ourselves?".
Yes. I run a small tech blog and work in tech, I have been putting together a plan to publish these kinds of guides.
I think your post gave me inspiration to start digging.
GREAT! The whole reason I post this stuff is to inspire action. I want my kids to have a future.
Let's use this community to start organizing.
I am a software engineer myself, I am interested in contributing. Is there a matrix group or something equivalent I can join?
Not that I am aware of.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.