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Ask HN: Where to work to combat climate change?

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I work as a software engineer at one of the big players. The job is alright, but I have a toddler and I am getting increasingly frustrated at quality of the world he is going to inherit, and lackluster response from US. Are there companies that take the issue seriously and actually doing something about it, instead of not looking past election cycles and quarterly profits?

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The work probably has to be political, I agree with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc

Yes, politics is the arena now. The science is done, and I can personally attest to the hollowness of working to refine the precision of our understanding at this late stage in the fight. There are tech jobs in offset accounting, but that field is generally doing math on scams that justify continued emissions.

Politics and propaganda are the buttons to push right now. Hopefully those will unlock other meaningful fields soon enough.

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I know that Lower Carbon [1] has a job board consisting of climate companies that they invest in. I'm sure Stripe has something as well.

[1]: https://lowercarboncapital.com/get-off-the-couch/

Here’s a twitter thread about climate companies hiring: https://twitter.com/a_laplaza/status/1534678203708502016?cxt...

Grow a syntropic forest.

This sequesters carbon at a high capacity.

It improves the quality of the soil and therefore increases nutrients in the food.

I personally see that as a huge win to combat climatege change and loss of nutrition in our food, both which will drastically affect future generations.

https://normative.io seems to have some remote positions that are open. They do carbon emissions accounting for businesses.

Plant more trees: https://trilliontrees.org/

Some ideas: Tesla. Northvolt. Polestar. Scania. H2 Green Steel. Myrspoven.

Get a job in crypto and then combat it "from the inside"

Energy policy or Nuclear lobbying.

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