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If you're a software developer, how would you go about doing this if you have no skills related to any of the areas that can have some impact on climate change?
by omosubi 7y ago
If you're a software developer, how would you go about doing this if you have no skills related to any of the areas that can have some impact on climate change? I've been a developer for a few years and have no hard science background. Should I go back to school to try and learn this sort of thing? Go into politics in some capacity? Keep working where I am and spend my free time and cash on climate change initiatives? Something else?
- BjoernKW 7y agoSoftware developers have tremendous potential for leverage at their disposal. Some time ago I talked to a software developer who was both impressed by non-profit efforts by NGOs to combat Ebola in Sierra Leone and depressed at the same time because he thought that as a software developer (and not a medical professional, for instance) he couldn't contribute anything to such efforts. I told him that a huge part of that specific effort in Sierra Leone was a piece of EMR software that allowed physicians and nurses to efficiently capture and retrieve patient data without being able to depend on a reliable local network infrastructure. I'm certain similar opportunities exist with climate change, too.