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I ask myself the same question so many times. As a dev it's very difficult to make anything to help curb the climate change. You are ("we" actually) working in
by piocho 8y ago
I ask myself the same question so many times.
As a dev it's very difficult to make anything to help curb the climate change. You are ("we" actually) working in a particular sector with computers, datacenter, IoT devices, and many more. (and every sectors relied on that). Each device uses a lot of electricity, runs 24/7 (most of them), is made of rare-earth metals, and so on. We are working on projects to always be ahead of our competitors, so we need faster servers, and so on.
I do not see anything we can do as dev ...
However, in the daily life, you can do a lot of things :
- buy food from local producers
- don't buy sh*t products from China coming on container ships
- change the way you are moving to go to work -> bike, public transport ?
- thing twice before buying something (especially electronics one) : do I really need a second tv to put in my kitchen ? and a second ipad ?
- ...