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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by PascLeRasc on Thursday August 15, 2019 @09:09PM (#20711277)
Nearly every day on here there's a thread about empty/meaningless work and feeling like we're not contributing anything that will matter 50 years from now - and I often participate as I feel this way quite strongly. This is the kind of work that's meaningful. This is a huge commitment to well-thought-out climate healing and using wealth for actual tangible good. Stripe already deserves a place above FAANG for their incredible work culture [1] but this goes even beyond that and would be fantastic to contribute towards. I'll be checking their careers page often, in case they get into hardware.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19422833

Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by chrdlu on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:35PM (#20711966)
The founders of Project Wren (https://projectwren.com/) went from building HR Software to building software to combat climate change.

We need profitable enterprises focused on this large global problem! I think the tides are starting to shift and would love to see the smartest minds of our generation focused on this issue!

Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by WrtCdEvrydy on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:55AM (#20712505)
You know, I would love for an option that just asked how old you are and just let you pay to offset your expected life's worth of tree replanting (this might just be the closest thing I've ever seen).
Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by esotericn on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:54AM (#20712764)
That's quite a hard figure to come up with I'd think, though there's no problem with overshooting of course.

My personal emissions going forward are likely to be way lower than previous years simply due to awareness.