Today, the Nobel Prizes are being awarded in Stockholm. But one category is still missing: a Nobel Prize for Climate and Planetary Health.
If the world’s most renowned award does not recognize our most urgent challenge, who will?
To help make this happen, @ecosia has offered €1 million to fund the very first Climate & Planetary Health Nobel Prize.
If you believe the climate deserves its own Nobel Prize, share and support the initiative.
After decades of making fun about how some bank just bought a not-intended-by-nobel category, I'm kinda against that idea?
I mean… it's kinda okay, since those were always intended to PR-whitewash Nobel, so buying one for doing PR for "your" domain is kinda on-brand?
But why should anyone repeat that?
…and 1 million sounds ridiculously low?
@dat @bjoernsta @ecosia Well, making fun of it hasn't really worked, has it? Maybe it's easier to make up a new category than criticizing a category propped up by capitalists.
I think the Nobel Prize is not prestigious because some rich guy made up a bunch of categories to donate his ill-gotten gains to and everyone decided that he is eternally the arbitrator of what is worth for humanity. It's always been important because people, society, politicians, the media etc put value on it.
About the 1 million, that's a lot for ecosia I guess, but from the wording I assume it's not for a foundation to invest and take from the profits, but instead just for the first award. That's in line with the other Nobel prizes.
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