Re:Ask HN: IT jobs fighting against climate catastrophe?
by onion2k on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:25AM
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Having palatable tech solutions would mean not making unpalatable political choices.
The only answer is to tackle the issue from both a technological point of view and a political one. Waiting for someone to find a tech solution, and then failing to find one, will make things so much worse.
That's a political choice, and it doesn't have to be that way. You think it's a hard political problem because we'd have to make very hard choices (reducing quality of life) with the currently deployed technical solutions.
We could push along the R&D levels tech that's already researched, just not deployed (renewables and storage for their intermittent production like li-ion utility scale batteries), and research more some stuff that's barely researched (next gen nuclear, fusion).
Having palatable tech solutions would mean not making unpalatable political choices.