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This comment is refuted by the dozens of clean energy and clean XXX companies currently doing great work and hiring.

• smt88 5y ago
  A 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 ago
    Natural 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 ago
      https://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 ago
      Burning natural gas is not a solution to climate change.