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Who is doing the most good in the world, and how? (kbin.social)

submitted 8 months ago by fiat_lux@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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!

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[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't think the Musk hate is completely justified. Yes, he has awful takes, and yes, some of his projects are stinkers. However, you can't deny that his projects have done a net good for humanity. He made electric vehicles commercially viable and got legacy car manufacturers to make their own, made huge progress in decreasing the cost of space launches, and is giving underserved areas high-speed internet. Each of those is difficult to do on their own, and his companies have done them all simultaneously.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He setup hyperloop to get the funding that should have gone to the high speed rail network of California, and then let it go bankrupt in order to sell more cars.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Isn't CHSR already funded?

Also, Hyperloop was the stinker I was referring to

[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Electric vehicles are part of the problem. Definitely not part of the solution. Personal cars are incompatible with any realistic sustainability target. He actively sabotaged the development of public infrastructure to make profit out of his stupid cars. He's evil as fuck.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

New electric and plug-in hybrids are still better than new gas cars, and those are easier sells than high-speed rail unfortunately. People still want their Ford F150s.

We have not made any real progress on passenger rail until Biden came into office with the exceptions of California and Florida. Unless you can link a good source, I don't buy that Musk singlehandedly delayed nationwide high-speed rail projects.

[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Not nation-wide, but definitely in California and he claimed that himself. Anyway, if you want to dig deeper: https://disconnect.blog/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam/