How about stop using automobiles and walk to places?
Ask HN: What jobs can a software engineer take to tackle climate change?
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#22The key phrase to be looking for in terms of employment is 'Environmental NGO'.
As well as this, think about incentive engineering: ways you can make it easy for people to change their lifestyle.
Re: Ask HN: What jobs can a software engineer take to tackle climate change?
#23Go outside and plant a tree. Preferably in a tropical area where it is less likely to burn during the summer. Trees are the cheapest most efficient way to remove carbon from the atmosphere. No other solution comes even remotely close. You can drive a Prius, become a vegan, and buy solar panels but a person who plants a single acre of trees will have offset an entire lifetime of greenhouse gas production and then some…
A few mins searching and I've not been able to find any figures that justify that, do you have any to hand? An acre sounds a bit small.
Nearest I've found is " rel="nofollow">https://greenismything.com/2015/06/23/howmanytrees/> which suggests ~2 acres per head for the US.
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#24I keep getting YouTube ads from a company called Ecosia[1] who describe themselves as a search engine that plants trees. I don’t know anything else about them other than I think they are based in Europe. Might be worth a look. [1] https://www.ecosia.org/
They are based in Berlin to be precise
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#25Can we cut the constant climate change topics? For the last three or four weeks I haven't been able to swing a dead cat without hitting somebody going into histrionics about the end being nigh because humans or cow farts are destroying the planet.
It really is that big of an issue.
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#26Any programming job where you write code that runs at a higher power efficiency than whoever else would've programmed it if you hadn't taken the job
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#27The easiest way to reduce CO2 is to plant a forest, so look for companies that do this.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1131365880435286016?s...
Those tree planting drone companies probably require software engineering.
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#28http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ may inspire you.
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#29Slightly adjacent to your question, but I've thought it would be nice to have a Google Maps-like app that optimizes for fuel use instead of drive time or distance.
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#30Are you looking only for other jobs in software engineering, or are you willing to enter a different field to accomplish this?
Software has the possibility to change behavior but it's probably not the biggest lever available for this particular problem.