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Climate Change is real and you can prevent it. Be the change

20 点作者 sendilkumarn将近 6 年前

13 条评论

diafygi将近 6 年前
For HN, there&#x27;s an extremely important item missing from this list:<p>* Get a job in cleantech.<p>I got into the climate-change fighting industry 6 years ago when I became a project engineer for a commercial solar company, then eventually I started my own cleantech software company. By working in the industry, I have had orders of magnitude more impact on fighting climate change than adjusting my lifestyle to be more carbon neutral.<p>Luckily for the HN crowd, there&#x27;s a huge need for software and other tech skills (data science, sysadmin, etc.) needed for the energy transition. With the deployment of so much &quot;intermittent&quot; generation like solar and wind, we need tons of software and communications infrastructure to run a new &quot;flexible&quot; grid.<p>So if you&#x27;re thinking what can you to help fight climate change, the best thing you can do is get a job in the climate change fighting industry. Start googling around for jobs with climate change keywords (&quot;solar&quot;, &quot;wind&quot;, &quot;clean energy&quot;, etc.). Start showing up to clean energy events (if you live in the bay area, check out my bayareaenergyevents.com). There&#x27;s so many people in this space who came from other sectors, and it&#x27;s incredibly easy to move up or start your own company doing some specific thing you think is needed for the fight.
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hnhg将近 6 年前
I believe climate change poses an existential threat to us right now but I don&#x27;t see things like this list helping.<p>The best thing for anyone to do is to support&#x2F;organise direct political action to change our actions at a global scale. Personal initiatives can only go so far.<p>We have a limited time left (I apologise for not backing this with a citation but this is a rushed reply) to act, and personal sacrifices here and there won&#x27;t help. Our carbon emissions are still growing overall and we need to reduce them somehow.<p>Also some of these points aren&#x27;t entirely correct. Reusing plastic bags will probably have a lower carbon footprint than using cotton (I owe you a citation for this but it&#x27;s out there). Also, there&#x27;s a conflation between climate change and plastic pollution throughout - let&#x27;s be precise in addressing these topics.
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shawnb576将近 6 年前
These are great ways to live in line with your values. Kudos to anyone who does their best to minimize their GHG footprint.<p>But no this will not prevent climate change and it’s best people don’t get the idea that they are “fighting climate” change by any of these measures.<p>There is one thing that matters: organized political action. That’s it. If the worlds political establishment doesn’t prioritize this, we are cooked.<p>Here is what you can do:<p>* Learn about climate change * Talk to your friends and family about it * Make it your top voting issue<p>Most people don’t understand the danger we are in
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jacknews将近 6 年前
I would also add to avoid many &#x27;smart&#x27; devices, and stick to well-built, dependable, maintainable&#x2F;fixable devices and appliances.<p>It&#x27;s been a trend for some time to build-in obsolescence (not to mention, cut corners), but adding &#x27;smart&#x27; to things seems to me to greatly worsen the situation, even if the smart controls claim to save energy etc.<p>The smarts, particularly the UI elements, will certainly become obsolete, and are often the most likely part to fail (often simply the tact or bubble switches, etc). Well, after built-in batteries, perhaps.<p>Having some smart, and exposing a simple and standardized&#x2F;open lower-level interface would be much better, and have the UI, except the absolute basics, like on&#x2F;off, on external devices of your choice.
superpermutat0r将近 6 年前
Well, if I take 1 intercontinental flight every year, then my savings on some other stuff are pretty negligible.<p>Same thing if I eat water intensive crops or meat. I can keep the tap open as long as I live and I would not waste the water spent on all those cotton clothes, rice and burgers.<p>Solution to climate change can&#x27;t be individual responsibility. Climate change is driven by huge corporations, I&#x27;m pretty sure that 50% of the population halved their CO2 footprint it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to corporation spending.
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MattBearman将近 6 年前
This is a pretty good list, although my understating is that dishwashers are generally more energy efficient than washing up by hand - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.comparethemarket.com&#x2F;energy&#x2F;information&#x2F;how-much-does-a-dishwasher-use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.comparethemarket.com&#x2F;energy&#x2F;information&#x2F;how-much...</a>
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gberger将近 6 年前
This article&#x2F;list portrays a good sentiment, but it misses the most important point: VOTE for politicians that support green policies.<p>It is naive to assume that people everywhere will read articles like this and educate themselves and the problem will disappear. Only the government can force corporations to behave in a way that is sustainable.
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Slimbo将近 6 年前
I&#x27;d like a bigger emphasis on efficiency. Space heating&#x2F;cooling in particular, your first big win is to increase efficiency before you even start to think about renewable. If you spend money to cool, increase ventilation, shade, find ways to reduce heat buildup in the first place. If you spend money to heat, insulate, wear more clothes, use public spaces more (share heat), shut doors. For both, use good thermostats or smart systems to manage heating and cooling.<p>In general you see a lot of advise for dealing with symptoms of our over consumption, not the cause. Buy less (toys, food, clothes, cars, travel, whatever). What you own, use it for longer, fix it, do without.
MildlySerious将近 6 年前
The problem is very real, and I am happy that it&#x27;s reaching more people than ever.<p>This is a well meant post with some solid advice that I wish more people would follow, but some points are just conflicting, confusing and possibly wrong.<p>Recommending to replace paperback books with an electronic device that is made up of plastic, while telling the reader to use less electricity and not to use plastic bags and avoid plastic packaging just doesn&#x27;t add up without providing some extra context.
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krageon将近 6 年前
This list is the sort of corporation-serving drivel that all of us should have come to expect from people who can&#x27;t think beyond their own experience to save their life. The majority of climate change comes from <i>corporations</i>. This list doesn&#x27;t address our most grating problem, which is what we&#x27;ve collectively allowed some other people to screw everything up for the rest of us.
martincollignon将近 6 年前
I think the article misses the point of what people can do politically and what we can as a tech community do using our skills.<p>For politics, I encourage everyone to look at Climate Citizens&#x27; Lobby [1]<p>For tech, there are now a few communities creating projects like climatechoice.co [2]: [3][4][5]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citizensclimatelobby.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citizensclimatelobby.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;climatechoice.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;climatechoice.co&#x2F;</a><p>[3]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;climateaction.tech&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;climateaction.tech&#x2F;</a><p>[4]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techimpactmakers.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techimpactmakers.com&#x2F;</a><p>[5]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tmrow.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tmrow.com</a>
qnsi将近 6 年前
This is missing the most important action one can take - voting and telling people to vote (Greens in Europe and progressive Democrats in USA)
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sendilkumarn将近 6 年前
Between thanks to everybody that I really get more and more information :) You are all the best.