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Ask HN: How to make an impact on climate change?
Over time, I’ve become increasingly convinced that the biggest and most important problem we have a shot at solving during my lifetime is climate change. However my skills are in software and ML which I do think are some of the most powerful tools available to us. Does anyone on HN feel their work makes a big impact towards solving this problem? Alternatively, does anyone have any ideas about how to make progress on this problem given the type of technical background I and many others on the site have?
- dominotw 8y agoI've reduced meat consumption by a lot.
- msadowski 8y agoI was thinking about this a lot lately. Since I started my business I was trying to reach out to nonprofits to offer my skills, however not one of those that I contacted was interested (although my main skill is robotics). I think the best way to help us to financially support environmental NGOs (I'm currently looking at joining 1% for the planet). I'd be very interested to hear about other ideas people have!
- julienreszka 8y agoYou said you are skilled with Machine Learning. Turns out you probably can help by predicting the impact of independent variables on climate and see by yourself.
- titojankowski 8y agoFor inspiration of around helping build tools, check out the Air Miners index of 80+ startups working on removing carbon dioxide from the air: http://airminers.org http://airminers.org I helped build it, happy for any questions.
- titojankowski 8y agoAlso, does anyone have a chart of the mentions of "climate change" on HN? I'm curious if it's rising in interest, I have alerts set so I see a lot of it but would be interesting for someone to pull actual data.