The human effort saved by using a less compute-efficient but easier-to-work-with programming language could be redirected to attacking climate change from anoth

The human effort saved by using a less compute-efficient but easier-to-work-with programming language could be redirected to attacking climate change from another angle. We'd have to look at the details to see which one is more effective overall. Although my gut says that "not programming in C" is generally the correct approach for your average piece of software.