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I liked a write up from Bret Victor on this: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
OP, this article also came to mind which you may find useful: https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/finding-a-job-in-climate
Things like bitcoin with their proof of work algorithms, are borderline immoral. Just burning through and awful lot of energy for no good reason.
Through the coordination of hundreds software engineers over the course of roughly 7 years, they made fundamental changes to the consensus protocol, such that it now falls somewhere at the very end of that list.
Now of course, software engineers also caused the problem in the first place, so make of that what you will
No. It's lipstick on a pig, it's a way of feeling important while making no difference. The way you combat climate change is by reducing carbon dioxide output and increasing biomass creation and therefore uptake and sinking. You can't write code that does that. Adding complexity to everything is what software developers do best, only the most skilled ones manage to reduce complexity, and adding complexity to this sit…
However, Climate Draft [1] spends a lot of effort to find high potential startups with technical hiring challenges.
You might ask Saul Griffith (https://twitter.com/GriffithSaul/) for more details. He really has his finger on the pulse of the engineering needed and is one of the main people that got the US IRA climate bill to pass.
One of the biggest challenges to reaching climate change is to globally educate in a transparent manner, identify the highest per capita contibutor and consumption demographics, promote suggestions for change, identify BS carbon credit trading schemes, identify effective C02 capture and reduction strategies, etc.
If I want to get a neice the best available SimEarth (for reals) what are the current options?
However, thinking in terms of what IDE settings, configs, etc. and the act of software engineering with regards to Climate Change is too minuscule an impact that it may not have the desired effect.
For instance, in 2018, I help build a functioning aeroponics farm right in the middle of the city and supplied produce to some local eateries to test/experiment on our hypothesis. The entire operation ran on a single Raspberry Pi and the nutrient feed timing and feeding was automated. That is software engineering helping as a tool.
Yes, we can use Software Engineering as one of the key means to our end goal and do have big role to play which can have an outsized return in fighting climate change.