Working remotely is great for any knowledge job. I work remotely and have done so for over six years. The team I work on is very collaborative and we often pa

Working remotely is great for any knowledge job. I work remotely and have done so for over six years. The team I work on is very collaborative and we often pair program or do video chats to consult about a piece of code or a problem. Remote working is no barrier to that. There's really no reason at all that any knowledge job -- anything where your primary work is mental and not manual -- couldn't be remote. Sales is maybe an exception to that since it often requires in person schmoozing. But yeah, remote working is great. It's definitely more sustainable and could save a lot of commute carbon. If it saw wider adoption it could potentially also ease some of the housing pressure on cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and New York; revitalizing a lot of dying small towns in the process. Since the businesses could be based in the big cities, but their employees could live anywhere. --- For getting solar panels on people's home, one of the policies I'm considering running on is the creation of a municipal fund that would purchase rooftop solar for houses in my city, and be repaid through people's utility bills. Basically, people would apply to the fund, low income home owners would be prioritized, the fund would pay for the initial installation of the panels, and then the home owners would repay the cost of the panels over the course of their life through their utility bill payments. In this way, we could gradually get solar on basically every house in the city. I'm sure eventually the local electric utility would get frustrated - because at a certain point the solar generation makes it so that they're losing money maintaining the lines. We have a municipal sewer utility, so we could just offer to have them buy out the power lines and maintain them - municipalizing the electric grid in the process. --- With respect to the panic attacks, I know a number of people, adults who are climate activists, who've also had panic attacks about climate change. Honestly, what would you prefer the woman to do, lie about the state of the climate and what these kids are going to be up against? I mean, I wouldn't talk about it with super young kids, but I'm not going to lie to my kids. Panic attacks are not an unreasonable response. It's terrifying and overwhelming. Kids being born today are probably going to live to 2100, and may well see the total collapse of civilization and the beginnings of a new Permian extinction in their lifetimes if we can't change course. Panicking isn't productive. But it is understandable. Most of the people I know who've had panic attacks are far from paralyzed, they're the among most drive and active people I know.