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Only governments can stop climate change. Individuals can't and for-profit businesses won't. The most impactful thing you can do is help political organizers p
by smt88 5y ago
Only governments can stop climate change. Individuals can't and for-profit businesses won't.
The most impactful thing you can do is help political organizers pressure politicians to make better decisions.
Unfortunately, it's very hard to do this part-time as a volunteer. Very few orgs will accept free help from part-timers.
You could try to get a software job with a pro-environment lobby or with a legal group like Environmental Defense Fund.
- spenrose 5y agoThis comment is refuted by the dozens of clean energy and clean XXX companies currently doing great work and hiring.
- smt88 5y agoA huge amount of carbon is emitted by sources that can't be profitably replaced in the near future: coal (especially in China), concrete, and cars come to mind. The only entities that can accelerate the switch is the government. Those sources of carbon are still too cheap in most places for consumers or businesses to want to stop using them entirely. I'll also point out that OP asked what a software dev can do, not what a physicist or engineer can do.
- deepnotderp 5y agoNatural gas is rapidly obsoleting coal on price, thanks to American frackers. Pollution absolutely can be replaced profitably, and without plunging billions back into poverty
- ximeng 5y agohttps://www.reuters.com/business/energy/winter-is-coming-temperature-extremes-fuel-global-gas-rally-2021-08-06/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/winter-is-coming-tem... this article suggests that natural gas prices may increase
- smt88 5y agoBurning natural gas is not a solution to climate change.