Does a chess.com have any green commitments?

Ezzz

But chess.com, with its 100m+ users, can have a significant influence for the better. We've seen it with their mods creating a safe online space, with their statement on Ukraine, among others. It would be great for everyone if chess.com took the initiative and brought it further to light. It really depends on who you ask as to whether we're overreacting or not, but the majority of people consider climate change as a growing problem that everyone needs to unite on.

In a nutshell, the global climate has been changing since the dawn of time due to a variety of factors. The sun is constantly heating the earth as a whole, but a portion of the heat gets reflected off the ground back into space. Generally, there's been a shield of various gases that have balanced the temperature and re-reflected the heat back to earth. It's pretty simple: if there's more of these gases in the atmosphere, the earth gradually faces warmer temperatures. The fact is that the rapid development of humankind has not only released more of these gases, it has also jeapordized natural areas that remove them. The challenge is now to allow for more sustainable development in the future.

For a better description of the issue as a whole, look here: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change

I have already suggested adding the climate change flag but I was shot down.

Maybe you just need more support from the rest of chess.com. Generally, one request gets ignored, but one request with 50 upvotes will definitely get looked at.

I’d love to help out

Yeah, I suppose it is.

I think it is important.

Why did we necro this again?

who tf knows. maybe because we wanted to hear some poems, so here's one:

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i slept and i wept,
and sometimes while walking in the light,
some tears i shed
some nights were kept,
apart,
and broken eyes,
wide as starry nights that twinkled endlessly,
while whole world slept.

i leaped into the stars and then i dreamt,
of sunny little trees, and storms that breathed with ease,
and while caressed by the never ending breeze,
in depth i walked.
i moved into the sunless night.
with sand flowing over my feet and half the dark sun in the distance visible to me, but noone near,
you're all never meant to disappear,
but here i am, alone i walk and walking is enough.
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Yes.. We don't use bog roll around here. We scoop it out with our fingers , that's why our fingers stink.

No idea what you mean by "pieces of paper".

Cash

Yes, very off topic and stupid too! What a joke. :-)

XD, try literally any other social media site.

Next time, type outside of the quote box; I was searching everywhere for the comment I thought you quoted. Now, if you believe that the climate will always change, then please lead yourself over here (https://www.temperaturerecord.org/). And you're right. Take a few clicks around and you'll see that the temperature over the last 800k years has been all over the map. But what you may also find is the exact same timetable, but this time representing CO2 emissions (which, as you mentioned, we do create with everyday activities). And if you will be so kind as to merge the two by clicking the thermometer/planet symbol on the top left, then I think you'll find something pretty cool; the lines are pretty much the exact same, even if you take just the last 150 years to account. So, you're right; the climate always changes. And, you're right; with or without us. And, coincidentally just as the world rapidly industrialized and created record amounts of CO2 and other GHGs, the temperature also changed at a rate never seen before. We condensed a 5k year change into a 200 year change, not by accident.

Now, I will add that without that period, humanity wouldn't be prospering as it is today, but if we try to keep the old way, then we'll put it all on the line again. Tell me if you need more on that.

As for your remarks on hypocrisy, we're not going be able to collectively achieve sustainability and prosperity in the blink of an eye. It's a complex issue. Returning back to chess.com, if this site were to unveil some sort of commitment or awareness campaign, that would be noticed (and perhaps spread) by millions of people every day! That's more than what you or I could ever do.

But anyway…