[TeMPOraL]

Are we? I don't see the similarity yet.

What I had in mind was an information source for individual decision-making (what to work on to best tackle problem X, how things are going), whereas politics is more about deciding as a group what problems are worth solving and then ordering resources to be directed into them.

[agumonkey]

Maybe I used the wrong word, "government" ?

I mean, joining forces to fix or improve the place we live in is the root of ideal politics/government.

[TeMPOraL]

Maybe, yes, but "politics"/"government" in this aspect is already a recusrive phenomenon - people self-organize on national scale, city scale, block-of-flats scale, etc.

Still, I don't think we need to try and make another body that would tell people what to do. Instead, I'm thinking of helping people who want to help by telling them where that help would have biggest impact, and as a secondary effect, creating a high-level overview of the scope of important issues[0]. Less of a government, more of an information service, I guess.

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[0] - even just reading and responding in this thread, I learned about areas that I never realized impact ocean acidification.

[agumonkey]

Pretty nice. A catalyst in a way.