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Climatelink.io (launching) tries to solve Don't Look Up

2 pointsby petervandijckabout 3 years ago

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petervandijckabout 3 years ago
We&#x27;re launching climatelink.io today. Climate change is complex, scary, real and the mother of all collective action problems. We&#x27;re building a social network focused exclusively on saving the planet.<p>In my own climate journey, a few insights led to building (and now launching) climatelink. First, climate is hard. I took the (excellent) terra.do course last year, and once you really study climate science, it&#x27;s hard not to freak out. When you dig into something so massive, the human tendency is to look away, or to stay on the surface. &quot;Don&#x27;t Look Up&quot; illustrated that beautifully.<p>Second, I talked to a whole bunch of people in a similar situation (&quot;what can I do?&quot;), and it&#x27;s really hard to figure out how YOU can actually make a meaningful difference in climate. Everyone has a different background, and at the same time, climate touches every sector and profession, so how can you combine those?<p>Third, even today, we only have a tiny fraction of the people that we need working on climate.<p>And finally, what I felt, and what many other people during conversations confirmed to me, is that once you really dig into climate, and if you don&#x27;t look away, you get kind of radicalized. And I am using that word carefully, in the positive sense: a radical change means a change that is not just incremental. We need to radically move our energy system off fossil fuels, for example.<p>So we figured, first, to fix the &quot;Don&#x27;t Look Up&quot; problem, we could use a social network, with its inherent addictive qualities (if we do it right). That turns a major social media issue (I can&#x27;t look away) into the solution of a major climate issue (Don&#x27;t Look Up).<p>Second, we can use a second negative side effect of social networks, that they tend to &quot;radicalize&quot; people, for good. Because we need radical change.<p>So that&#x27;s all to say, I really hope you will check out climatelink.io, and let me know what you think :)