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I am in a similar position like OP and find it quite hard not only to find offerings, but also to understand if the projects have some real impact or are just p

I am in a similar position like OP and find it quite hard not only to find offerings, but also to understand if the projects have some real impact or are just propaganda green-washing activities or even plain climate budget hijacking by dinosaur companies. Look, even in this thread people are seriously (?) recommending working on Bitcoin for climate change - in a similar but mostly not so obvious way you can find "green jobs" that in fact are not green jobs at all. Even "green minister" nowadays is no guarantee for doing the right thing. E.g. look at Germany: the poor green Mr. Habeck who is now Minister of Economy must make decisions that are completely opposite of the green political program (because of Putin). This is a good demonstration why you really need to double check "green" job offers and companies. It would be great to have a validation service of climate job offers done by people with reputation. If you are living in the inner circles of the climate movement please talk about this idea, thanks!

Aachen 4y ago
Just because a minister can't make the perfect policies for climate, doesn't mean that putting Trump on that chair wouldn't have a different outcome. Having people there with an understanding of the problem we face and how to fix it, or advising such people, or providing better data to those advisors, or building the satellites to collect that data... Yeah it's hard to say what will ultimately have been the best possible use of your time, but please don't fall into indecision just because no option seemed perfect :) That said, I'd be curious if a climate-aware person working at a fossil fuel company would still be negative compared to them working for Greenpeace or something. Probably if you have no impact (like a fuel truck driver) then your time would have been better spent at Greenpeace, but if you're part of meetings where something is decided then you'd have an impact already. Maybe what we need is to look for roles with either some decision making capacity, or no such capacity but at a company that's already working to help everyone reduce emissions?

Aachen 4y ago

Just because a minister can't make the perfect policies for climate, doesn't mean that putting Trump on that chair wouldn't have a different outcome. Having people there with an understanding of the problem we face and how to fix it, or advising such people, or providing better data to those advisors, or building the satellites to collect that data... Yeah it's hard to say what will ultimately have been the best possible use of your time, but please don't fall into indecision just because no option seemed perfect :) That said, I'd be curious if a climate-aware person working at a fossil fuel company would still be negative compared to them working for Greenpeace or something. Probably if you have no impact (like a fuel truck driver) then your time would have been better spent at Greenpeace, but if you're part of meetings where something is decided then you'd have an impact already. Maybe what we need is to look for roles with either some decision making capacity, or no such capacity but at a company that's already working to help everyone reduce emissions?