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Yet another way to feel like you're doing something while doing absolutely nothing, or maybe even worse. Keep it up people!
by alien1993 6y ago
Yet another way to feel like you're doing something while doing absolutely nothing, or maybe even worse.
Keep it up people!
- dubcanada 6y agoI mean donating money to CarbFix for example is not exactly doing nothing?
- joshmanders 6y agoGiving money is doing something.
- mytailorisrich 6y agoGiving money is making yourself feel good. Whether that actually achieves anything is another question altogether. But giving money to achieve something is difficult because you need to invest time and effort to investigate where to give and to whom.
- lolsal 6y agoNot every thing we do has to solve every problem immediately and entirely. Incremental progress is good.
- valw 6y agoAs should be known in a community of programmers, it's misguided to blame tools from their potential abuses. Every single tool for the ecological transition can be misused for green-washing, from solar panels to electric cars to carbon taxes. Let's welcome and improve the tools, while keeping an eye on how people use them.