My feed is filled with bad news, which is my fault for using the fediverse as a news feed, but it made me wonder: Which organisations, groups or individual people in the world are doing the most good for our world? I’m particularly interested in those who manage to do good on a larger impact scale (quantity or quality), but if the unknown person on your street who fosters kittens is a great example, I’d love to hear about them too.
Mr. Rogers told me to look for the helpers in times of trouble. Tell me about your favorite helpers!
The Great Green Wall initiative. They’re teaching farming methods that restore water tables and greening arid areas across middle Africa, stopping the advance of the Sahara desert. They supply the expertise and the materials, and locals do the work. In the process they’re also reversing the exodus of young people to the cities, because increased/improved agriculture provides jobs for them in their home villages.
Stunning initiative! Some real-life Dune ecology going on.
As you said, it’s not just the greening angle, they’re providing jobs and generational stability to the region, which is far more important than what would otherwise be a quick and short win.
Frank Hebert was an actual ecological consultant on top of being a writer. But yes, the scale of such a project is closer to sci-fi.