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Reading some of the answers in this thread, I think I would put all my resources into a global education program.

In my eyes the greatest challenge is to find a way to enable humanity to live in a way that does no longer destroy the ecosystem it relies on.

Unfortunately, the solution won't be just technological but rather social, educational and political.

We must find ways to stop overconsumption, overpopulation and to teach children (and people in general) the value of our natural environment.



+1!

It'd be great to see the beneficiaries of tech wealth commit to building intentional, public physical learning spaces (again [0]).

Libraries may look different in the 21st century, and have more than books, but their purpose of making knowledge accessible remains the same and as important as ever.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library


Education is probably not enough. Maybe only a nature cult or religion could save the planet. I say this as a life-long atheist.


>global education program.

HN users are pretty well-educated and you could barely convince them that a person would not die without a huge personal manicured backyard.


"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Being "well-educated" is not the only desirable outcome of education.




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