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honeytonedhottie · 1 month

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how to successfully rebrand⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🧁

this post is a collaboration with my FAVORITE @prettieinpink. in this post we'll elaborate on rebranding urself and implementing change in a way that is not only efficient but not that difficult to do ✨

FLIP THE SCRIPT ;

write down who u wanna become. what ur goals are, what ur style is like, ur schedule, achievements, relationships etc. however instead of writing it like "it'll happen one day" write it as though it happened already.

on the flip side i want u to write down what u think hinders you or blocks u from making the rebrand that u want so desperately. ur weakness. then flip them and find solutions on how to deal with it entirely, or diminish it significantly.

EXPAND ON UR BEAUTY ;

learn how to do makeup that is suited for ur own features. learn which clothes and colors compliment and flatter you the best. when u try and use a cookie-cutter approach to beauty as a way to fit a standard, you won't feel/look ur best.

thats why its important to know your own self the very best. no one knows ur beauty and body like you do so only you know best how to make ur beauty bloom.

DEVELOP UR OWN STYLE ;

u dont have to follow along with every single trend that u see in the fashion industry. although its fun at times or the particular trend can inspire u to create more outfits, its important to have a sense of individuality when u dress.

i recommend creating a pinterest board and filling it up with clothes that u love and clothes that align with ur style. find a fashion inspiration or multiple if u dont know where to start. when u go shopping, reference this board and look for clothes that r similar to the clothes in ur pinterest board.

REFRESH BUTTON ;

block the numbers of people that keep u trapped in a version of urself that u no longer associate with. get comfy with the block button girlies!! you can control who sticks around you and you're directly responsible for protecting ur peace.

delete photos of people who are no longer in ur life (like, they hurt u or walked out of ur life/vice versa) change up ur environment and what ur staring at every single day. unfollow people on social media who dont inspire you/who make u feel bad about urself and where u are on ur rebranding journey.

ADAPT ;

remember that list that we made earlier? lets learn to adapt habits can cultivate that and make this rebrand thrive. identify nonsense in ur life and learn how to get comfortable with cutting it off.

EXECUTE ;

now its time to put everything that we've covered into a action with a few easy and simple steps.

do ur SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats)

create solutions to what u classify as ur weakness

commit to yourself and your rebrand

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yloiseconeillants · 18 days

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MAYNCIENT :: Day 7 - Familiar

Protomyke 987 : A variety of fungus identified in the Chlorophospond, and deceptively unintelligent even given the low expectations such a description establishes.

#i love my brainless vibes-only son (one of thousands)#mayncient 2024 #ariadne #it's actually fairly important to my conception of ariadne that she doesn't develop that many concepts herself #she's much more of a collaborator (and usually an enabler for some of the wackier design choices)#as for her personal work she takes a much more hands off approach and lets her mushrooms develop without much further input #which has led to some instances of CONSEQUENCES in the form of fungal blooms #mike in particular was the result of a drunken night of marathon brainstorming and experimentation between ariadne and erasmos #they were trying to make a shark #(they don't know what a shark is)#MIKE

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munchiezxx · 7 months

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i think that sophie is probably a cuddly sleeper against her will and i think that the extra bed at freddie’s is not very big

#hc developed in collaboration w lula ofc hehe #sophie kicked off the blankets also #the pasithea powder #my art #pissed off in her dreams too

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

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crimeronan · 19 hours

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i think i read this on your blog somewhere but just checking; are you okay with folks writing fics in the princess luz'verse? i'm fascinated by all this sickfic talk and may want to try my hand at it

oh absolutely!! i LOVE seeing what people do inspired by this verse. there's never enough messy AU owl house content to go around. and i love sickfics so, double excitement!

(i also drop this link every time the subject comes up because i love this fucking fic so much: here is an incredible fic inspired by the AU where hunter meets willow bc she's growing weed with eda. this is only tangentially related to your question, i just want everyone in the world to read it.)

#as a general rule i'm always fine with people taking inspo from my fics and silly ideas #even if i plan to write something similar it's like. two cakes!#it would be especially strange to gatekeep this AU when 98% of it is collaborative.#like luz's belos-assassination storyline was me. but basically all of the ensemble cast and relationship development afterward #all came from various asks and ideas people had. and were kind enough to let me incorporate into my AU 'canon'#cannot emphasize enough how much of the breadth of this AU plus the sustained ability to hyperfixate is from you guys.#if i was writing in a vacuum i wouldve finished everything i thought to explore AGES ago.#replies #toh #princess luz au

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thursdayglrl · 2 months

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I think it's funny that people took the word "parallel play" and declared its a neurodivergent thing. no it's a child development thing I'm pretty sure most adults understand the concept of "comfortable silence" and "wanting company while I do things, but not necessarily wanting to talk'

#parallel play is when children play separately in silence and is most common in younger children because most of them eventually move on to #playing together collaboratively #but just because a child develops social skills and awareness and starts to involve others in play doesnt mean they STOP parallel play #and also. as an adult youre not like being assessed on whether youre including your classmates in playing blocks #like its unusual for older children to not include peers in their activities. THAT part is the autism part #its not like developmentally unusual for adults to have things they do separately but in the same room/environment/etc even silently #cause youre not. Playing. like including your adult friend in your work tasks or your twittet scrolling or your book reading isnt a #developmental milestone #idk i saw someone being like 'i love doing parallel play with my husband and doing my own thing while he does his i cant believe NTs feel #the need to talk to their partners every time they're around' and im like oh my god get off ~neurospicy~ twitter

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airbenderedacted · 11 months

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IF I WERE WOY CREW I WOULD ALSO FIGHT FOR THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING THE LESBIAN FLAG SOMEWHERE ON OR NEAR DOMINATOR IN JUST ONE WHOLE SCENE IN THE SHOW SEND TWEET

#(maybe at the end of her character arc to avoid any unsavoriness / unfortunate implications about her feral ass idkidk hmhjujjnfgs)#Wander Over Yonder #Lord Dominator #granted that's in the scenario where say craig is fine with ascending her lesbianism to official canon status #(currenlty it's abt on the same level of canonicity as wander's logevity/immortality. as in they're written as being but it's not OFFICIAL)#but like i feel kinda strongly about um. it's great to leave characters fully open to interpretation so that all takes can be valid #BUT i think that if the crew sees a character as one thing and goes so far as to write them as being that #then it should 100% be made official official canon bc um HEY ahjaghjsdnmds. like atp the collaboration the silent agreement THE CODING #that's!!! a lot!!!! atp it's important to confirm the rep as being meaningful to the show canon and make it official ygm #and when it's like. when it's as tiny a thing irt the overall plot/character development. you don't have to go crazy with that confirm #SLAP A FLAG DOWN & CALL IT A DAY WHO'S WITH ME haha #TOH DID IT OK K.O. DID IT NIMONA DOES IT!!!!!!! DO YOU SEE THE VISIONN #oh but speaking of making canon rep explicit. if dom were to be confirmed i would also push for a super lesbian coded NON-villain #yk just to avoid. a certain disney trope #same with the aro coding like idk if she's meant to be literally aro or not but regardless #i think woy could really use an unequivocably do-gooding good guy character who is as romance repulsed as dominator is #bc i think the show does a fine job of separating her disinterest from her evil - doing evil is evil. not liking romance is neutral #THAT MESSAGE IS THERE IMHO!!#but it doesn't do a fine ENOUGH job #i think the character who is hella unparalleled in her evilness n all that shouldn't be the only character in the show who's No Romo #anyway im getting way too rambly about.. what is literally just the discussion of TINY THINGS YOU CAN DO TO DO GOOD BY LGBT REP BUT AAAA #as much as i have to say about them in practice these would all be very tiny things and i just love how much you can say with a little #if that all makes sense #❤️

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moonsidesong · 8 months

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a Real new madou monogatari game huh.... wild i never thought id see the day

#i assume this means we're getting Both next year?#the madomono game seems focused on the classic era crew since the concept art only shows suketoudara and ske-T and classic carby #and we know from voice actor tweets that Feli is in the next puyo title #bri talks #plus like. ok sega is stupid but i really dont think theyre going to squander the 20*24* release year with a game-#-that only uses puyos as a common enemy???? lol #besides it sounds like sega is being listed as a collaborator more than a developer #possible they just have a guy there that OKs the dev's depictions of puyo characters since thats their guys now #anyway. i was never as into madomono as everyone else. but its kinda cool to see it back #i hope schezo gets a new age again wouldnt that be funny

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brunhielda · 5 months

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Something that marks a movie as very good is such consistent attention to background detail that you can start spinning side stories for the most minor of characters.

Watching “The Santa Clause” this morning.

Do you remember soy milk girl?

Just from the 2 tiny scene with her, I know she is from a mid-low income family, and she has a loving grandmother (possible lives with her).

How do I know this?

There are crocheted throw blankets over the chairs, and lace doilies everywhere. She sleeps with a colorful but well loved quilt. Most telling is her nightgown.

As a child I thought that nightgown was so fancy. As an adult who has made clothes I realize that is the point. It’s a very simple pull tie neck and sleeves that make it look puffy and full, then some thicker sturdy lace across the top- probably easier to make than the doilies on her tables. It looks and feels fancy to a little girl, but was likely made from cheaper material from the fabric store over a couple days.

This girl is well loved by her granny who makes a lot of stuff in that room- either little girl is visiting for Christmas or lives with Granny. In fact, I could see the lower income feel of the house with fancy tree being because parents are out of the picture, and little girl and Granny live on Granny’s pension, but she also is thrifty and has saved all her tree decorations for years. 🎄

And now I have an image of Grandmother picking out soy milk at the store to help put her grandchild at ease. Maybe even the discussion in the kitchen while making Christmas cookies- “What’s Lactose intolerant?” “Does that mean Santa can’t have milk?” “What CAN he have?” And this sweet old lady patiently answering all her questions as they decorate and problem solving it with her.

All of this, because someone coordinated the set dressing with the costume department, and they decided to set an aesthetic- nay, tell a little story inside a 2 min scene.

That is but one example from this film- there is so much going on.

Much love to the background designers and storytellers who worked on “The Santa Clause.”

#the santa clause #visual storytelling #character development #this is the difference between makeing a movie and telling a story #someone understood how crafting and sewing on a budget works and added it in #the story was better for it #why I love collaborative storytelling #a wider tapestry of human experience

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lilas · 7 months

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mine and @myreia’s tav, vren (they/them), got a hair cut for act 2 and I’m just…! So obsessed with them, they are so cute, they are everything to me

screenshots taken by anna <3 bonus beneath the cut

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#bg3 githyanki #oc: vren #bg3 tav #i am so <3 about how they’ve developed as a character #100% recommend collaborating on characters with friends

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sysig · 10 months

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I'm awfully curious as to what kinda work goes into creating a pantheon. Idk like where are your gods from and why are they gods and what makes them gods? I keep thinking about making one but it gets so complicated so fast

Not to "It depends" but lol - my method of making the AGE gods is by no means One Size Fits All! I mean heck, there are lowercase gods and one Uppercase God, and that's just in the Prime Material Plane lol. The complexities are what makes it fun in my mind :D

As just a brief overview, the way the AGE gods function is kinda like elements: Y (the "One True" but really just the First God) coming into existence brought "elements" (angels) into being, and then by dying created an "explosion"/power vacuum that sucked a handful of angels into new super-beings that the sentient races adopted as the new gods. And that's just how they came to be, not counting things like how worship works, or how over the course of the campaign they were meant to be picked off one by one, throwing off the balance of divine nature!

I think a lot of it comes down to what you want to use your pantheon for - mine was a ticking clock for the PCs to save the Prime Material Plane from imploding, and all the development came from that impetus - they were designed to die from the very start, and only then did I start developing how they came to be and what they represent :) What do you want your god(s) to do? Why? Hopefully they'll start taking shape from there

#AGE #Y was the Big Bang of divinity basically ♪ It's why They're a sun God!#And the rest of the gods got a lot of development from the PCs as well #Since I had two PCs with three basic patrons between them - not Warlock-style just regular devotion #I had to give them some kind of relation to each other #Which ended up linking Pan (Ethon's) and Tempest (Gæilo's) - and made them twins #And since /they/ were twins and I ended up with 12 just make 6 pairs of twins! Well where did /they/ come from??#And so on and so forth lol #It ended up becoming the basis of the divine magic system and tied into the backstory of both of the PCs /and/ the BBEG #Tying strings to strings! A good portion of it was collaborative but also trying to make all the pieces align and make sense!#I hope this is actually helpful and not just like ''IDK but here's my guys'' lol - knowing what you want them to do is important imo :)#I guess that's the case with most story-driven characters isn't it haha #What has you inspired to make a pantheon? >:3c Motivation!

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voxphantasma · 1 year

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just started relistening to skyjacks from the top and yall. im so in love with how character secrets are brought up in this show. theres something so magical about how things are just brought up as if the audience already knows but we dont. theyre just like hey. sun has started to go down. the thing that travis does every sundown is happening. and its so casual and familiar and it makes me feel like im in on it too. fuck i love skyjacks

[IMAGE ID’S: four screenshots of episode transcripts of campaign: skyjacks. the first one is from episode 1 and reads:

JPC: Exactly. He’s currently hunched over captain Orimar Vale. Orimar is kind of like sitting there like staring straight forward, he is holding Orimar’s jaw in his hand which has completely separated from, the bottom part of his jaw- Liz: Wuah. JPC: -has completely separated from his mouth. Orimar, by the way, looks very much human, looks very much alive but is very much missing his jaw and doesn’t appear to be worried by it. As Gable comes in, Dref turns. Dref: Don’t worry, I can fix this. This- this will be fine, I, I can fix this. Gable: What do you mean you can fix it, it’s not attached to his head. Dref: Yes, um and, and I can explain that. Gable: What did you do? Dref: I had to take it off.

the second one is from episode 3 and reads:

JPC: As we are talking, the sun has started to go down. James: What does it look like, Johnny? [music begins: soft, mystical, acoustic, slightly eerie] Johnny: I think it's kind of horrible. You can hear it. It's bone crunching and— Liz: Ugh! JPC: Does it hurt? Johnny: I think, probably, yeah. Tyler: Every single night.

the third one is from episode 3 and reads:

You raise this dart up. You line it up with the board. [mystical music begins] You breathe in; you breathe out; and your eye opens beneath your headband. And in front of you, the divine light of the universe, you can see in this moment. It's not something you can ever voluntarily do, but here, feeling the warmth of the liquor in your belly, the warmth of the woman at your side, and the weight of the dart, everything is connected.

the fourth one is from episode 4 and reads:

Travis: Interesting. Hmm. Of course, it could be nothing. They're just cards, after all. Gable: You talk a lot, don't you? Travis: Me? Gable: Yes. James: You're looking at each other, now, standing across this war board, and you've got these divination cards between you two. And you also are the only two members of this crew that know about each other, that really know about each other. You don't know in detail, but you have a hint that both of you have been around longer than anyone else would imagine.

/ END ID’S]

#i just love this show so much yall #its been over a year since i last listened to it and ive missed it so so bad #id completely forgotten how collaborative it is as well #like how james asks the players to contribute with details when they get to a new setting #and how everyone will jump in and develop and play npcs #and they all are able to and encourage to add things to the world and direct the narrative #outside of just their pcs #everyone go listen to skyjacks im begging #skyjacks #campaign skyjacks #campaign podcast #my post 💻

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jcmarchi · 1 month

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Q&A: Claire Walsh on how J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative tackles the twin climate and poverty crises

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Q&A: Claire Walsh on how J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative tackles the twin climate and poverty crises

The King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI) is the flagship climate change program of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which innovates, tests, and scales solutions at the nexus of climate change and poverty alleviation, together with policy partners worldwide.

Claire Walsh is the associate director of policy at J-PAL Global at MIT. She is also the project director of K-CAI. Here, Walsh talks about the work of K-CAI since its launch in 2020, and describes the ways its projects are making a difference. This is part of an ongoing series exploring how the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is addressing the climate crisis.

Q: According to the King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI), any attempt to address poverty effectively must also simultaneously address climate change. Why is that?

A: Climate change will disproportionately harm people in poverty, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, because they tend to live in places that are more exposed to climate risk. These are nations in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia where low-income communities rely heavily on agriculture for their livelihoods, so extreme weather — heat, droughts, and flooding — can be devastating for people’s jobs and food security. In fact, the World Bank estimates that up to 130 million more people may be pushed into poverty by climate change by 2030.

This is unjust because these countries have historically emitted the least; their people didn’t cause the climate crisis. At the same time, they are trying to improve their economies and improve people’s welfare, so their energy demands are increasing, and they are emitting more. But they don’t have the same resources as wealthy nations for mitigation or adaptation, and many developing countries understandably don’t feel eager to put solving a problem they didn’t create at the top of their priority list. This makes finding paths forward to cutting emissions on a global scale politically challenging.

For these reasons, the problems of enhancing the well-being of people experiencing poverty, addressing inequality, and reducing pollution and greenhouse gases are inextricably linked.

Q: So how does K-CAI tackle this hybrid challenge?

A: Our initiative is pretty unique. We are a competitive, policy-based research and development fund that focuses on innovating, testing, and scaling solutions. We support researchers from MIT and other universities, and their collaborators, who are actually implementing programs, whether NGOs [nongovernmental organizations], government, or the private sector. We fund pilots of small-scale ideas in a real-world setting to determine if they hold promise, followed by larger randomized, controlled trials of promising solutions in climate change mitigation, adaptation, pollution reduction, and energy access. Our goal is to determine, through rigorous research, if these solutions are actually working — for example, in cutting emissions or protecting forests or helping vulnerable communities adapt to climate change. And finally, we offer path-to-scale grants which enable governments and NGOs to expand access to programs that have been tested and have strong evidence of impact.

We think this model is really powerful. Since we launched in 2020, we have built a portfolio of over 30 randomized evaluations and 13 scaling projects in more than 35 countries. And to date, these projects have informed the scale ups of evidence-based climate policies that have reached over 15 million people.

Q: It seems like K-CAI is advancing a kind of policy science, demanding proof of a program’s capacity to deliver results at each stage.

A: This is one of the factors that drew me to J-PAL back in 2012. I majored in anthropology and studied abroad in Uganda. From those experiences I became very passionate about pursuing a career focused on poverty reduction. To me, it is unfair that in a world full of so much wealth and so much opportunity there exists so much extreme poverty. I wanted to dedicate my career to that, but I’m also a very detail-oriented nerd who really cares about whether a program that claims to be doing something for people is accomplishing what it claims.

It’s been really rewarding to see demand from governments and NGOs for evidence-informed policymaking grow over my 12 years at J-PAL. This policy science approach holds exciting promise to help transform public policy and climate policy in the coming decades.

Q: Can you point to K-CAI-funded projects that meet this high bar and are now making a significant impact?

A: Several examples jump to mind. In the state of Gujarat, India, pollution regulators are trying to cut particulate matter air pollution, which is devastating to human health. The region is home to many major industries whose emissions negatively affect most of the state’s 70 million residents.

We partnered with state pollution regulators — kind of a regional EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] — to test an emissions trading scheme that is used widely in the U.S. and Europe but not in low- and middle-income countries. The government monitors pollution levels using technology installed at factories that sends data in real time, so the regulator knows exactly what their emissions look like. The regulator sets a cap on the overall level of pollution, allocates permits to pollute, and industries can trade emissions permits.

In 2019, researchers in the J-PAL network conducted the world’s first randomized, controlled trial of this emissions trading scheme and found that it cut pollution by 20 to 30 percent — a surprising reduction. It also reduced firms’ costs, on average, because the costs of compliance went down. The state government was eager to scale up the pilot, and in the past two years, two other cities, including Ahmedabad, the biggest city in the state, have adopted the concept.

We are also supporting a project in Niger, whose economy is hugely dependent on rain-fed agriculture but with climate change is experiencing rapid desertification. Researchers in the J-PAL network have been testing training farmers in a simple, inexpensive rainwater harvesting technique, where farmers dig a half-moon-shaped hole called a demi-lune right before the rainy season. This demi-lune feeds crops that are grown directly on top of it, and helps return land that resembled flat desert to arable production.

Researchers found that training farmers in this simple technology increased adoption from 4 percent to 94 percent and that demi-lunes increased agricultural output and revenue for farmers from the first year. K-CAI is funding a path-to-scale grant so local implementers can teach this technique to over 8,000 farmers and build a more cost-effective program model. If this takes hold, the team will work with local partners to scale the training to other relevant regions of the country and potentially other countries in the Sahel.

One final example that we are really proud of, because we first funded it as a pilot and now it’s in the path to scale phase: We supported a team of researchers working with partners in Bangladesh trying to reduce carbon emissions and other pollution from brick manufacturing, an industry that generates 17 percent of the country’s carbon emissions. The scale of manufacturing is so great that at some times of year, Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh) looks like Mordor.

Workers form these bricks and stack hundreds of thousands of them, which they then fire by burning coal. A team of local researchers and collaborators from our J-PAL network found that you can reduce the amount of coal needed for the kilns by making some low-cost changes to the manufacturing process, including stacking the bricks in a way that increases airflow in the kiln and feeding the coal fires more frequently in smaller rather than larger batches.

In the randomized, controlled trial K-CAI supported, researchers found that this cut carbon and pollution emissions significantly, and now the government has invited the team to train 1,000 brick manufacturers in Dhaka in these techniques.

Q: These are all fascinating and powerful instances of implementing ideas that address a range of problems in different parts of the world. But can K-CAI go big enough and fast enough to take a real bite out of the twin poverty and climate crisis?

A: We’re not trying to find silver bullets. We are trying to build a large playbook of real solutions that work to solve specific problems in specific contexts. As you build those up in the hundreds, you have a deep bench of effective approaches to solve problems that can add up in a meaningful way. And because J-PAL works with governments and NGOs that have the capacity to take the research into action, since 2003, over 600 million people around the world have been reached by policies and programs that are informed by evidence that J-PAL-affiliated researchers produced. While global challenges seem daunting, J-PAL has shown that in 20 years we can achieve a great deal, and there is huge potential for future impact.

But unfortunately, globally, there is an underinvestment in policy innovation to combat climate change that may generate quicker, lower-cost returns at a large scale — especially in policies that determine which technologies get adopted or commercialized. For example, a lot of the huge fall in prices of renewable energy was enabled by early European government investments in solar and wind, and then continuing support for innovation in renewable energy.

That’s why I think social sciences have so much to offer in the fight against climate change and poverty; we are working where technology meets policy and where technology meets real people, which often determines their success or failure. The world should be investing in policy, economic, and social innovation just as much as it is investing in technological innovation.

Q: Do you need to be an optimist in your job?

A: I am half-optimist, half-pragmatist. I have no control over the climate change outcome for the world. And regardless of whether we can successfully avoid most of the potential damages of climate change, when I look back, I’m going to ask myself, “Did I fight or not?” The only choice I have is whether or not I fought, and I want to be a fighter.

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