• AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    1 million dollars doesn’t go that far these days, at the world scale it is almost nothing.

    You could however make a lasting difference in your community by making a scholarship, building needed facilities, or doing something else where you directly make sure the funds go where needed and can’t be used for other uses. Lets face it, if you give it to some charities 90% of it will just go to the administration.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      One of the things that I’ve seen is that politicians can be bribed for shockingly little money. I think with a 1million dollars you could bribe one high member of congress, or 10-20 low-level politicians.

    • lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 month ago

      I’m generally against the idea of planting as many trees as possible.

      Trees are not very good carbon sinks because they decompose and burn. Also, there are also some ecological communities where adding trees makes the land a worse carbon sink.

      Avoiding cutting down forests to build suburbs is something I can certainly get behind though.