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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.
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.
"1 million dollars doesn't go that far" depends on what you use it for. Donating it all in one go will not take it far. Investing it in an education for climate science (or paying for some to do climate science) will take it further as you'll have some leftover to make more of an impact. Also isn't admin apart of the cost of being a charity org?