# IEF (Impact Evaluation Foundation). Background. Context. Explaination. By [Mars Robertson](https://paragraph.com/@dearmoon) · 2024-10-21 --- Building in public. Rather than saving draft in drafts, saving draft as v0.1 of this post. * * * How long have you been in climate? 2015 combination of two events. Majestic, monumental, remarkable talk from the Breaking Convention, a conference on psychedelic consciousness: [![]({{DOMAIN}}/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVYROR3RQys) It actually took me a while to understand the depth, meaning, nuance. And then the photo of a boy and refugee crisis: ![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Alan_Kurdi](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/c1e57a040de26afdcb28f11886de6fe25fdddb9264336432a9ffedc835ee5d3e.png) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_of\_Alan\_Kurdi Of course, I’m not impressed by media-engineered theatrical spectacle, but it made pause, reflect, think, tying to understand the root causes. ![Syria’s Climate-Fueled Conflict, In One Stunning Comic Strip: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/syria-climate-years-living-dangerously-symbolia/](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/9bcc4ea2386d4a146ec243d90aa5f377ddddbb696a186afcbe1c701937a87fbb.png) Syria’s Climate-Fueled Conflict, In One Stunning Comic Strip: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/syria-climate-years-living-dangerously-symbolia/ ![In case you wonder if climate is your / not you business, bear in mind how it affects geopolitical stability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_Belt](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/6f57d2bb929bd6184b61182ca58a885c8b1430e1d6dc924020354f92209f4d6c.png) In case you wonder if climate is your / not you business, bear in mind how it affects geopolitical stability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup\_Belt ![COP26 in Glasgow, also COP23 Bonn, COP24 Katowice](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/26575ae8abce982ee9f02a2b703c4b3c1274a1781c57ecf8a862d2ba99bf2ffd.png) COP26 in Glasgow, also COP23 Bonn, COP24 Katowice ![January 2024, also May 2022](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/93f0afda21f5930d034af4ca157350b35d6a7e0f2aba9bc6f22881ed704f2257.png) January 2024, also May 2022 I find the climate super important ---------------------------------- ![Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1810141115](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/d938f35e707b1dcb183e5985c9a1845c827e4f7ded032eb77a190b7bd0bf0a65.png) Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1810141115 [![]({{DOMAIN}}/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl6VhCAeEfQ) ![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_greenhouse_effect](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/cd5008bad34d0d8d93c32594f5a410088e7af941ca6f70d7ffb90e789a8dca71.png) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway\_greenhouse\_effect Work on global governance ------------------------- [Planetary Council blog on Mirror](https://mirror.xyz/0x315f80C7cAaCBE7Fb1c14E65A634db89A33A9637) and [PlanetaryCouncil.org](https://planetarycouncil.org/) linking to a few highlights directly from the homepage: * May 29th 2023: [Metacrisis pressure points](https://mirror.xyz/0x315f80C7cAaCBE7Fb1c14E65A634db89A33A9637/jvJw-qvCj857j3F9IOvYMzyo5Nxc6TdwrOg9o7LGp3g) * June 10th 2023: [Singularity Activation](https://mirror.xyz/0x315f80C7cAaCBE7Fb1c14E65A634db89A33A9637/tESv4DzpC2IwDPMgj8SCqyN71na_4GG1lH0c6kz146w) * September 8th, 2023: [Meta-singularity](https://mirror.xyz/0x315f80C7cAaCBE7Fb1c14E65A634db89A33A9637/4MexJuw-6W10cgkoWFoWD8fJyoe68q6CSVl6XcJs-ns) (singularity of singularities) * February 9th, 2024: [The simplest explanation](https://mirror.xyz/0x315f80C7cAaCBE7Fb1c14E65A634db89A33A9637/k5-H4FT2RceFwNoxiVTspXjiI5ZXuLCtmy22clsENug) [Island DAO blog on Medium](https://medium.com/island-dao) and [starting point table of contents](https://medium.com/island-dao/table-of-contents-start-here-e6ff76d1ebec) Work on new definition of value ------------------------------- [BaseX blog on Mirror](https://mirror.xyz/0x81e64EFA58bf79F1649F267E16451Fbf836071f6) - did not succeed as BaseX, I was exhausted, I was tired, I was facing one rejection after another. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/9957b4e6cf2a12f999fd5648fb81db3681116f1b5d1ee806c12022a718646529.png) IEF (Impact Evaluation Foundation) proof of work ------------------------------------------------ ![Currently the wiki has already migrated to a new domain: https://ief.wiki/wiki/Proof_of_work](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/ff9557364f9d4232c3b2eac358f64daab5a086941ac7704532402b1a9b0e9b27.png) Currently the wiki has already migrated to a new domain: https://ief.wiki/wiki/Proof\_of\_work He said VS she said ------------------- Experiment 1️⃣: [https://forms.gle/oZ3RhUAq9Q31LpBy9](https://forms.gle/oZ3RhUAq9Q31LpBy9) Experiment 2️⃣: [https://forms.gle/kCTt6pXJhpUvB7de9](https://forms.gle/kCTt6pXJhpUvB7de9) Game theory of conflict? Typically: LOSE LOSE Not if you treat it as marketing strategy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succ%C3%A8s\_de\_scandale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succ%C3%A8s_de_scandale) [https://www.independenttribunal.org/](https://www.independenttribunal.org/) [https://t.me/IndependentTribunal](https://t.me/IndependentTribunal) --- *Originally published on [Mars Robertson](https://paragraph.com/@dearmoon/ief-impact-evaluation-foundation-background-context-explaination)*