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I read because I was curious what "climate career" means. From the article they mention:

Urban farmer

Environmental consultant

Environmental scientist

Environmental lawyer

Environmental activist

Or joining the proposed "Climate Corps", a federal jobs program for young people to help fight the climate crisis [doing what though?]

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You can have a "climate career" doing pretty much any job you would like.

You can be an IT, a dev, a mechanical engineer, an accountant in a startup working on carbon removal [1], you can be a chemist researching new ways of producing cement with less CO2 impact [2], a farmer specializing in multistrata agroforestry [3], a technician installing solar panels etc.

[1]: https://carbonengineering.com/careers/

[2]: https://drawdown.org/solutions/alternative-cement

[3]: https://drawdown.org/solutions/multistrata-agroforestry

That's a neat, pretty small scale set of jobs there.

pretty soon we'll have Environmental software developer

i optimize my code cycles to environmental standards. Best CO2/LOC ratio in 5 years

You joke, but code optimization is a career. If you can make something run much more efficiently, there's money to be made. I can't remember the name of the consultancy that did this though.

if it were so profitable maybe some things wouldnt be so bloated

Yeah the job is not exactly widespread. I guess because most of that stuff is just "ship it and not our problem" (the user is used to buying new hardware every 5 years to do the same tasks anyway).

I hope that attitude changes. Buying new hardware every 5 years should not be the norm.

I nominate this guy then https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

This site is beautiful from the in- and outside.

Can't come soon enough. Randall's Python environment is really screwed. Node.js is a lost cause.

https://xkcd.com/1987/

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