Thread by @wormmaps

I've applied for bigger NSF grants as an early career prof than the funding that entire African countries have received to work on climate change research *over 30 years*. It's hard to wrap your mind around how severe the adaptation gap really is.

https://twitter.com/BlaneHarvey/status/1498679061702393866

It's hard to contextualize these kinds of numbers sometimes, but $1-10m is easily the size of, say, most of the say 2-5 year research grants you apply for as a scientist. One grant's worth.

Also: external funders are interested in protecting African biodiversity from climate change, but health? poverty? Those aren't getting their day in the sun. Speaks to huge conversations @seyeabimbola @paimadhu + other folks are pushing about decolonizing global health

@seyeabimbola @paimadhu It's worth checking out the original study these numbers are from, by @IndraOverland @NickZimson @christrisos & others tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@seyeabimbola @paimadhu @IndraOverland @NickZimson @christrisos Last thing, those local authorship maps are worth sitting with just as long as the finance ones. I'm saying that especially as an American who wrote a few lines of the Africa chapter + who tries to do work in this space thoughtfully. It maps onto funding systems *directly*.