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?
@thewhite969 Would also go against the whole point of the Nobel Prize (it is by definition, 5 prizes).
https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/full-text-of-alfred-nobels-will-2/
About as silly as demanding that the Turing award be awarded for achivements in medicine.
@thewhite969 @dat @bjoernsta @ecosia
An actually realistic idea would be to pitch this to the Swedish Royal family to institute a completely _NEW_ prize.
Maybe call it the Victora prize.
Björn Staschen
Cegorach
Philipp Weiß
Alfred M. Szmidt