http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
I hadn't been thinking about global overheating (aka climate change) much before Eric Normand recommended that article of Bret Victor's in his Clojure Gazette. Now I'm thinking about it a lot and thought I'd try and bring it to broader attention in the communities I know. For everyone here who hasn't found something to devote her- or himself to; for everyone who thinks that devoting oneself to creating yet another picture chat¹ is worthwhile; for everyone else, too: I strongly suggest reading that article. (The discussion on Hackernews <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622615> might be helpful as well.) Global overheating is not the only extistential risk humanity is facing. In the wake of reading Bret Victor's article I discovered a bunch of other people who take on the burden of worrying about more than their private lives. This might be a good entrypoint: http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks The Open Philanthropy Project has a list of more global catastrophic risks <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KeoKVYspULcMXtfoNCaedkATc1wmHlqFyz5Nt0BZ4BQ/> . Or, for an even more general approach: http://www.effectivealtruism.org/ Please think about it. Richard PS. Sorry for posting off topic. ¹…or Wiki software or React wrapper or cat video publishing platform or…… – I don't mean to bash people creating such things. Only to weigh the importance of such things against the importance of helping humanity survive. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
