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Ask HN: How to make an impact on climate change?

3 points by dontreact ↗ HN
Over time, I’ve become increasingly convinced that the biggest and most important problem we have a shot at solving during my lifetime is climate change. However my skills are in software and ML which I do think are some of the most powerful tools available to us. Does anyone on HN feel their work makes a big impact towards solving this problem? Alternatively, does anyone have any ideas about how to make progress on this problem given the type of technical background I and many others on the site have?

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dominotw
I've reduced meat consumption by a lot.
msadowski
I was thinking about this a lot lately.

Since I started my business I was trying to reach out to nonprofits to offer my skills, however not one of those that I contacted was interested (although my main skill is robotics).

I think the best way to help us to financially support environmental NGOs (I'm currently looking at joining 1% for the planet).

I'd be very interested to hear about other ideas people have!

julienreszka
You said you are skilled with Machine Learning.

Turns out you probably can help by predicting the impact of independent variables on climate and see by yourself.

titojankowski
For inspiration of around helping build tools, check out the Air Miners index of 80+ startups working on removing carbon dioxide from the air: http://airminers.org

I helped build it, happy for any questions.

titojankowski
Also, does anyone have a chart of the mentions of "climate change" on HN? I'm curious if it's rising in interest, I have alerts set so I see a lot of it but would be interesting for someone to pull actual data.