I am living in India, but my heart bleeds seeing so many animals dying in Australia in forest fires. Is there anyway we(software developers) can help in this situation besides giving donations? I think we have failed as an advanced form of life when we let our fellow living creatures die helplessly. Open for serious suggestions from everyone..
Organize a team engineers who can build full stack applications and then contact fire departments to figure out what problems you can solve for them.
Unfortunate thing is that even people with billions or even individual countries can’t do much. World needs to unite in the fight versus climate change.
As an atheist, I think the action with the biggest impact you can do is to pray for rain.
As an atheist lol good one
It is sadly true
Engineer some sort of early warning system to notify first responders? Something like smartconservationtools.org? A fire specific solution could involve coordinated droneswarms for initial sensing. Unfortunately good luck getting funding for a venture like this... Things that actually matter have a very low return on capital investment. Which is gross and depressing.
Keep in mind that australia is run by climate deniers that promote coal and natural gas for short term economic gain. They also cut funding to firefighting staff. Imo, its very unscalable for normal ppl to keep donating tons of money to all these fires that will keep happening more in frequency if governments arent taking preventative steps
Donate money? Thoughts and prayers don’t do shit.
Already done. Half my monthly salary.
Good stuff. On a site note, I’m super heart broken too. I hate it when animals have to suffer.