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.

For politics, I encourage everyone to look at Climate Citizens' Lobby [1]

For tech, there are now a few communities creating projects like climatechoice.co [2]: [3][4][5]

[1]https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

[2]https://climatechoice.co/

[3]https://climateaction.tech/

[4]https://techimpactmakers.com/

[5]https://www.tmrow.com